Never mind that Mexico's minister of health, Doctor Julio Frenk (see Wikipedia), is much more experienced and far better qualified.
The politics of health dictate Hong Kong's former director of health Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, "our Hong Kong girl" emerge the sole nominee for the post of director general of the World Health Organisation.
The nomination was the result of much jockeying by various major powers.
While Doctor Chan as director of health for Hong Kong dealt succesfully in 1997 with the first bird flu outbreak hereabouts, it was during the SARS epidemic (2003) that she made a series of fatal errors. Fatal for others, that is.
Still, having reacted too slowly to that SARS outbreak, maybe the good doctor has learned the value of fast communication. Let's hope so.
Nevermind. It's only politicians making a power play with people's health.
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