WHO jobs: Smokers need not apply.

Kounteya Sinha--Times News Network

NEW DELHI: If you smoke and want a job in the World Health Organisation, you’ll have to kick the habit.

As of December 1, all applicants to WHO are being asked if they smoke or use other tobacco products. If their answer is yes and if they qualify for the job, they are asked to quit. They are hired only if they agree to do so.

This was stated by WHO’s director of immunisation, vaccines and biologicals Dr Jean Marie Okwo Bele, who was in Delhi recently to participate in the 3rd Global Alliance of Vaccine and Immunisation partners’ meeting.

Dr Bele said: "We are no longer recruiting smokers under our tough new employment policy. All applicants to any of our offices across the globe are being asked whether they smoke. If they qualify for the job, they are being asked to quit smoking. Only on agreeing are they being recruited."

He said: "This decision is being communicated to all our global branches, to be put into immediate effect. As of December 1, all employment notices will include a line stating that the UN health agency has a smoke-free environment and does not promote tobacco use or recruit smokers."

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