WHO dismisses manager after s.e.xual misconduct findings

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday it had dismissed one of its senior managers for s.e.xual misconduct following an investigation prompted by a complaint by a junior British doctor.

“Temo Waqanivalu has been dismissed from WHO following findings of s.e.xual misconduct against him and corresponding disciplinary process,” WHO spokesperson Marcia Poole said in an emailed response to Reuters.

Waqanivalu, a Fijian doctor who headed a unit on non-communicable diseases at the global health agency’s Geneva headquarters, did not immediately respond to a request to comment via telephone or email.

A source familiar with the proceedings said Waqanivalu had denied the allegations throughout the investigation. S.e.xual misconduct of any kind by anyone working for WHO, be it as staff, consultant, partner, is unacceptable,” Poole added in the statement.

Waqanivalu could appeal internally to the WHO and failing that, to a tribunal at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Poole said.nDr. Rosie James, who works for England’s National Health Service, made her complaint in a Twitter message in October last year.

Source: eNCA

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