GENEVA - The 78th World Health Assembly opened on Monday with the official theme One World for Health. Delegations filled hotels on the Right Bank. Swiss hosts treated the week as infrastructure: security, trams, and a city used to badge queues.
Sustainable financing sat just behind the ceremonial words. A pledging event was already on the calendar for Tuesday evening. Missions from smaller states asked whether core programmes would survive another thin year.
A Swiss week with a global invoice
For Geneva the assembly is a full hotels story. For Bern it is a reminder that international organisations are a local labour market. The two stories share a lake.