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FIFA, Qatar team up with WHO for World Cup health promotion

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By GRAHAM DUNBAR

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the Industrial-Military-Complex usurped by the Medical-Sports-Meeja-Complex....

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Events like the World Cup and the Olympic Games are perfect partners for promoting health and solidarity,” WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

wonderful! soon there'll be no more disease, and no more wars.... colour me heartwarmed!

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FIFA and Qatari organizers of next year's World Cup teamed up with the World Health Organization on Monday to use soccer’s marquee event for promoting public health.

This is laughable considering the high number of deaths of migrant workers involved in build the sports facilities and all the other construction associated with the development boom that began after the world cup was awarded.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022

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Health is wealth. Life is a precious gift. “May we unite to be better prepared, and respond to future pandemics more collaboratively, as we seek to tell the WHO narrative to global audiences in languages and platforms that are accessible to all” - Monsieur Didier Drogba

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