Identify the functions of the World Health Organisation.

It sends out its specialists to various countries, to train and educate about maintaining good health and for sharing research information.

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It promotes research to develop new technology to identify diseases and to cure them.

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It exclusively helps children and mothers on an immediate basis, especially in times of crises and natural calamities.

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It sets international standards for necessary consumable products.

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Solution

The correct options are
A It sends out its specialists to various countries, to train and educate about maintaining good health and for sharing research information.
B It promotes research to develop new technology to identify diseases and to cure them.
D It sets international standards for necessary consumable products.
WHO was founded on 7 April, 1948. It strives for 'the highest possible level of health for all'. Its headquarters is situated in Geneva, Switzerland. WHO helps fight diseases and prevent them. It worked with UNICEF in a programme that immunised over 80 per cent of the children in the world against killer diseases. Some of the functions of WHO are:

It sets international standards for necessary consumable products.

It also promotes research to develop new technology to identify diseases and cure them.

The World Health Organisation helps projects that work to provide safe and clear drinking water and adequate waste disposal.

WHO sends out its specialists to various countries, to train and educate about maintaining good health and for sharing research information.

It builds infrastructure to help specialists in developing countries.

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