New Delhi, April 7 -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has dedicated World Health Day 2025 to maternal and newborn health.

In her message on World Health Day, Saima Wazed, Regional Director for WHO South-East Asia, highlighted WHO's history and noted that the establishment of a specialized international health organization was first proposed in April 1945, when diplomats met in San Francisco to form the United Nations.

The following year, the 'International Health Conference' in New York drafted and adopted the constitution of what would soon become the World Health Organization - signed by 61 nations, when the UN itself had 51 members.

"This WHO constitution came into force two years later, on 7 April 1948 - a day we since mark as ...