WHO chief hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro, report says


  • World
  • Thursday, 21 Nov 2024

FILE PHOTO: World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses a press conference on the Marburg virus outbreak at the Kigali Convention Center in Kigali, Rwanda, October 20, 2024. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana/File Photo

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro's Hospital Samaritano Barra da Tijuca, local newspaper O Globo reported on Thursday.

Tedros sought "the hospital with symptoms of labyrinthitis and an hypertensive crisis," after first showing signs of being unwell on Monday at the sidelines of the G20 summit.

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