History Today: Why April 7 is celebrated as World Health Day

The World Health Organization (Who) was founded on April 7, 1948, to promote international cooperation in improving public health, a date now observed as World Health Day. Also on this day in 1994, genocide broke out in Rwanda, an East African nation, leading to the deadliest mass killing since World War II. It lasted around 100 days, during which more than 800,000 civilians were killed

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