Hospitals & Asylums
Will of the WHO Director General Lee
Jong-wook HA-22-5-06
World
Health Organization Director-General Lee Jong-wook died in Geneva on Monday
May 22, 2006 at 7:43 pm after undergoing emergency surgery for a blood clot,
subdural hematoma, in his brain. Lee, a native of South Korea, was 61 and
received a medical doctor's degree from SNU and a master's degree in public health
from the University of Hawaii. He worked for 19 years at the agency before
becoming elected as the head of the U.N.'s health agency in May 2003. His term
was to last five years. Lee became ill on Saturday before the annual World Health Assembly meeting 22-27 May and was rushed to
Cantonal Hospital after complaining of a severe headache, according to an
official present at the time (Yonhap English
News, 5/22). Lee
is survived by his wife Reiko Karabuki and a son. Anders Nordstrom of Sweden, Lee's deputy, will serve as acting
head of WHO until the agency organizes elections for a new director-general.
We had high hopes for the 59th World
Health Assembly WHA. The WHO Executive Board Meeting 29 May – 1 June 2006 and the
Health Assembly 22-27 May, are advertised in the mission statement of
Hospitals & Asylums (HA) Chapter 9: Public Health Department (PHD) where Director General Lee
Jong-wook, is quoted at the Conference of African Health Ministers on 28
June 2005, saying, “Our common goal is universal access to safe, affordable
and effective medical care”.
There are three legal issues
regarding UN reform that I had hoped the Director General would bring
up with the World Health Assembly because I was too busy drafting a
Military Department (MD). The issues
relevant to the disposition of the effects of the deceased with a will under 24USC(10)§420
are:
1. codify the Health Assembly
Resolutions HA/60/0 rather than WHA, whereas “laughter is the best medicine” so
that we could "laugh in the face of death" rather than sound
surprised, and
2. for the WHO to seize the International
Narcotic Control Board (INCB) and take responsibility for the regulation of
narcotic drugs from the UN Office of Drugs and Crime that could change their
name to just the UN Office of Crime.
3. overthrow the 6th
Committee (Legal Committee) of the UN General Assembly by changing its name to the 6th
Committee (Health and Science Committee), 7th Committee (Religious
Committee) and 8th Committee (Legal Committee). This would
held to make international law holy and to honor the work of Lee Jong-wook in
the General Assembly.
In Review of the World Health Report 2006:
Working Together for Health HA-14-4-06, the
longest and most comprehensive WHO report yet, it is safe to assume that Lee “wooked”
himself to death.
Thank you,
Tony Sanders