WP/RC10.Rl
ANNUAL REPORr OF THE REGIONAL DIREcrOR
The Regional Crnmnittee, Having reviewed the Annual Report of the Regional Director on the work of WHO in the Western Pacific during the period 1 July 1958 to 30 June 1959, NOTES with satisfaction: (1) the trend towards long-term health planning and the
integration of villO-assisted projects into the national health services; (2)
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the progress made in all WHO-assisted projects
during the period under review; (3) the inclusion in the report of short eValuation
summaries on completed projects;
(4)
the ever-increasing co-operation with the South
Pacific Commibsion; 2. REQUESI'S the Regi.onal Director: (1) to conoider the possibility of makinG arrangements for
fellows from the Western Pacific Region to be trained in countries where many clinical cases of smallpox exist;
(2)
to give priority to the organization of an inter-regional
seminar to exchange information on Japanese B. encephalitis and other arthropod-borne encephalitis; 3. EMPHASIZES the importance of the services rendered by the
EPidemiological Intelligence Station in Singapore and urges governments to ensure that the Station is informed immediately of any outbreak of quarantinable diseases and also of the last case;
4.
CONGRATULATES the Regional Director and his staff on the
preparation of a comprehensive and detailed report; 5. ADOPrS unanimously the report. Third meeting, 21 September 1959
WPR Handb.Res., 1st ed., 2.2.9