World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun said in Geneva on Tuesday that she “quite understands and supports” the local government’s plan to build an infectious disease centre, according to a statement by Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng’s office yesterday.

The WHO chief met a Macau delegation led by Tam during the ongoing six-day World Health Assembly (WHA) in the Swiss city’s Palace of Nations, the statement says.

According to the statement, Chan praised the local government for its achievement in providing public healthcare services, as well as its prevention and control of infectious diseases, and she also said the local government had achieved “excellent results” in building its public health network.

This handout photo released by Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng’s office yesterday shows World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun (left) talking to Tam in Geneva on Tuesday.