Continuing the work of the late Dr Mahmoud Fikri, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean

Abstract

It was with terrible shock and profound sadness for all to learn that Dr Mahmoud Fikri, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, tragically died of a heart attack on 17 October 2017, as he was en route to Uruguay to attend the WHO Global Conference on Noncommunicable Diseases. Dr Fikri had been appointed as Regional Director in January 2017 by WHO's Executive Board following his nomination by the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean in October 2016. He had taken office on 1 February, 2017.