{"id":165371,"date":"2022-05-23T16:20:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=165371"},"modified":"2022-05-23T16:31:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T16:31:50","slug":"khairy-confirmed-as-one-of-five-vice-presidents-of-world-health-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=165371","title":{"rendered":"Khairy confirmed as one of five vice presidents of World Health Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>By Aisyah Husna<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin has been named as one of the five vice-presidents of the 75th World Health Assembly which is now taking place in Geneva, Switzerland, according to <em>BERNAMA<\/em> report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khairy was chosen alongside representatives from four other countries: Bulgaria, Indonesia, Togo, and the United States.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday night (22 May), the Health Ministry released a video of the announcement to the local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khairy&#8217;s appointment was verified by Dimishtra Sittampalam, the Health Minister&#8217;s advisor, in a tweet.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He will be the Western Pacific&#8217;s representative. This region includes 37 countries and accounts for more than a quarter of the global population, &#8220;he stated. ***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: BERNAMA<br><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aisyah Husna KUALA LUMPUR: Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin has been named as one of the five vice-presidents of the 75th World Health Assembly which&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7361,"featured_media":165372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,19,3,20],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[156,12,7361],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-05-23-at-10.03.17-PM.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165384,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165371\/revisions\/165384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}