MP SPEAKS | The recent dietary advisory published by the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO-Emro) advising people not to consume palm oil during the Covid-19 pandemic because it contains saturated fats. This is a terribly misleading advisory which will jeopardise WHO's authoritative standing on health and nutrition in the global community.

As billions of the world's population are fighting the Covid-19 pandemic now, any health and nutritional information provided by WHO will certainly carry weight and be considered influential. Hence it is critical that WHO predicates its advisories on sound scientific data.