WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION R.EkONAL COM4ITTEE Fourth Session
RIDIONAL OFFICE WESTERN PACIFIC
WP/RC4/Min/.5 Rev.l/Corr.l
"Jrdto 8th September 19.53 Corrigendum to the Summary Minutes of the Fifth Meetin£; Pag
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4: Change "In conclusion, Dr. Marcel said that To
he had presented a v ry brief summary of what he had wished to say on behalf of the Vietnamese Governnent during the Technical Discussions."
"Dr. Marcel reminded Representatives and Observers that the document on Health Planning mentioned in the Technical Discussions document "Health Planning, Summary of Activities" had been circulated. Dr. Marcel regretted that becaus of the shortage of time, he was unable to continue the development of the study during the plenary sessions. However, he wished to emphasize that no matter what was the structure of the sanitary organization in the various countries, tre organization was based on several essential principles to which he had referred in his paper. They were as follows: 1. Health services in countries should include: a) b) 2. 3. A preventive public health service A hospital service for curative purposes
There should be an active and continuous health education campaign. Public health work in all countries should be supported by goverments. The work might be usefully assisted by WHO and by other foreign and internatiom l organizations. administrative and financial autonomy."
4. Health services should have, to a large extent,
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~RLD ltEALTH OlWA~liZATION
WP /RC4/r'd.n/5 .Rev. 1 23 Octcber 19.53
RIDIONAL OJNiflTTEE
Fourth Session Tokyo 3rd to 8th September 1953 S~Y 1-W~UTES
OF THE
FIFTH MEETING HliLD AT TOKlO ON 8TH SEPT.ElvffiER 19.53
at 9:20 a.m.
J.J4.
PUBLIC INFORl-IhTION
At the invitation of the Chaixman, Mr. Ronald Morse, the Public Information Officer, made a statement. (\iP/RC4/l6). Dr. Regina Padua, Chief Ltepresentative of the Philippines, moved the adoption of the draft resolution conta.in(ld in the Document, (WP /RC4/l6). Dr. Horace DeLien1 Chief Representative of the United seconded the draft resolution which read as follows:• The Regional Committee REALIZING IUtOMf-I'AIDS S~tes 1
the importance of an informed public opinion, that each Meinbe:t: State take invnedia te steps to translate where necessary, to reproduce and to distrib.ute on tho widest possible scale, information concerning the ~fork of w'HO, 'L llE:
that each Member St~te take action to establish . liaison service already app•ovoci; and
that each 1-tlmQer State ,include teaching on vJHO as . a sooject in th:J curricula of Gov ~~rrunent and, where possible, private schools. A
vote was taken and thu Chairman declared the resolution
adoptecie
45.
TIME, PLACE AND Dllf<.ATION OF NEXT '.m:l SESSIONS
The Chairman invited Mr. Hans Th. Johnsen, Administration und Finame Officer, to l'rta.ke . a statement. the t:i,me.~
¥.rr. Johnsen referred to the importance of knowing in advance place and duration of tre two subsequent Sessions •.
The Vice-Chairman, Dr.J.M. Cruikshank, speaking as Chluf Representative , of the United l(il:~gdom, stated that tile. Government of Singapore ·approved, in pri.rieiple, the holding of the.l95.5 Session in Singapore and had •authorized him to make this announcement.
/Dr.
Regino Padua
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-Dr• Regino Padua, Chief Representative of tm . Philippines,. moved that The Regional Committee ACCEPT
the kind invitation extended by the Government of Singapore to act as host to the Sixth Session of the Regional Committee to be hold in 1955, ·
Dr. Horace DeLien, Chief Representative of the United States, seconded the draft resolution. A vote was taken and the Chairman declared the resolution unanimously adopted.
Tht Chairman .:stated ~hat--it had . already_ been decided that if invitations .were .not. iS'su~d that tm Meetings would autorna tically be held in 1'1anlla. Continuing, the Chairman stated tha. t the Meetings were mrmal.ly held in the second or third weeks of Septe!lber and were of a six-da:rs~~ --d:la'ation. In the absence of any objections to these tim~s ani this duration, the Chairman declared ·the prO.posals accepted by the Cam~ttee.
46.
THIRD RIDIONAL NUTRITlON COMMITTEE IN SOUTH AND EAST ASIA
The Secretary drew the attention of the Meeting to the Document WP/RC4/l7 in which reference was made to the Third Regional Nutrition· Coouni ttee in South and .&.st Asia held at Bandung1 Indonesia# at the end of- June, · 1953. ~e final report of ·the Neeting had been written at the FAO Headquarters in Rome a. week or t~ro previously.. Ha had requested copies of the Report to be ~ir-frcighted to Tokyo so that they could be distributed among.thc · Represant~tives • . The reports had not arrivc:d and fuerefcre the statement con. t a.ined in the fifth paragraph o! Document WP/RC4/l7 was incorrect. On receipt of tho reports; the Secretary promised to selXl than to Manbers. He nlso indicated that if any action were required ooncerning the proposed Nutrition Training Course, then it would need to be con~iQered at t.he Fifth Session. .
Dr. Regino Padua, Chief Represetitative oft he Philippine.~; while considering the subject to be very important, moved that: ·
The Regional Committee NOTES the Document WP/RC4/17 11rxith.e Se~etary'~ s~atement concerning the Bandung Nutrition Conference.'
Dr ••Cruikshank; Ch:L(;f: I~epresontative of tne . ynit~d 'Kingdom; referred to t ha excellence of 'tile work done· at the . Bandung ConferGncc. In::tha ·absence ·of any resolution.·adopted• ob~tion&~
the Chairman declared the
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47. co-oRDINATION AND DIRECTION OF HEALTH l<'lORK The Chainnan read to ·the Hecting the resolution contain~d in Docunent vJP/RC4/19 which had been prepared during the Technio.aJ. Discussions and referred to the Committee for consideration. It was as follows: The Regional Committee
CONSIDER!BG
tm t the first function 9f the World Health Organization as listed in articie 2 of the Constitution is 11 to act as tho directing and co-ordinating-authority on international health wor~' and · tha.t there are in existence very many international organizations concerned partly or wholly with health1 and that there is a world shortage of expert personnel, and that the to·tal resources available for meeting health problems are inadequate, and while that certain agencies possess particular advanteges in special fieldsJ nevertheless to the Member Governments that consideration be given to inviting the C?.·ganbaiiions to exercise to a greater ext.ent the co-ordina timr authority.- given to thi~ Organization by Art,icle 2 of the Constitution.
KNOWING
:KNOWING KNOWING RECOGNIZING RECOMHEN:OO
Dr. John T. Gunther1 ChiGf Reprtlsentat.ive of Australia stated that the rQ)sr;lution was in a draft fonn end its adbptfon ·; had not been formally rnov~d. He hoped th:1. t it would Il6main· in that state as he consider€Sd that·.it '. :w~>.s fer the indivi.dual Governments· who had formed various iriternational organize.tions and agencies to determine their mode of working. There was no point in drawin~ the attention of Governments to Article 2 of the Constitution, as before signing the ·Constitution, all Govcrnm(mts had decided to subscribe to its con tentE;, . •l)r; Gunther. thought tha. t .the . draft resolution would serve nci u.c:~eful purpose and also that it might not be well receiv(3d by certain Governments. ,'fre Secretary confirm~ :tQe understanding of Dr. Henri Marcel, Chief Repr~sentative of Vie.t-Nam, that this draft resolution had buen prQpos-ed during the Techn,ica.l Discussions.
Commenting upon the Technical Discussiohli, Dr. Maroel regretted that ·:he had not been able to participate and referred to th0 advantages associated with the adoption by all States :.of si.TTlilar plans in public health 'imrk. Continuing, Dr. 1:1arcel referred to the impdrtance of b'asing· health plans on accurate data and of paying due attention tcr "both preventive and curative medicine. Dr. I1la.rcel had noted that the subject of the Technical Discussions for the /following year would
- 4following year would be Public Heal~h Administration and he considered that an essential part of Public Health ~dministration was Health Flannil)i.- He r.eferr.ed· also to the economic importance of preventive medicine. In co~clusion, Dr. Marcel said that he had presuntcd a very brief summary of what he had wished to say on behalf of the Vietnamese Government during the Technical Discussions. The Vice-Chairman, Dr. J. M. Cruikshank, said trat the reso• lution under consideration had been prepared by the Discussion Group A. When: considered by all of the Groups at the final Technical Discussion Meeting, it had not received very enthusiastic support. Dr. Cruikshank suggested therefore that the resolution might just be left as a recom.;nendation forwarded from the 'l'echnical Discussions Groups, and that the Committee merely take note of it.
Dr. Richard K. c. Lee, moved that The Regional Committee TAKE NOTE
Representativ~
of the United States,
of the draft .resolution entitled "Direction e>.nd Co-Ordinat.ion of international Hea:. th ivorkli · (WP/RC4/19) forimilatecfduring the Technical Discu~sions.
Dr. Regino Padua, Chief Representative of the Philippines, seconded Dr. Lee's resolution.
A vote t-m.s taken anr: adopted.
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.. Chuinnan declared 'the. resolution
48.
COHHUNITY ORGANIZiiTION
~ND DEI!ECOH'l~)JT
The -~cretary drew the at:tention af tJ1e Corrrmi ftee to the resolution cqncer.ning Conmu.."l.ity Organization and Development adopted by tho ];conailic and Social Councll on 31st Jul'y1 1953. He invited the Committee to st.udy tho copies of this resolution which had been distribute9' ~C.~;.o~ding to th?. t·:.:rms of this resolution Specialized Agencies, izieli.lding the World Health Organization, were a.skod to keep in mind the desirability of developing ei~sting programmes and initiatingnew programmes along lines which ltl)U].d promote community development in a broad sense. Also when planrJmg programmes.. ,on environmental sanitation, health demonstration areas and related work, the contributions which other Organjzations of the Un:Lted Nations.. could nake, shoul4 be remembered •
there \ITaS -md he
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ii. 1 Yen, Chief Repr.e:?ent~tiva of China, said that need 'to empha::tize the 'iJiipo,rtanoe of the Rcsoltitio.n 'tba;t
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/The Be gional Comm.it tee
- 5The Regional Committee TAKE NOTE
of the Economic and Social Council r~solution concern€6 with Community Organization and Development adopted by the Council on 31st July, 1953.
Dr. You Chhin1 Chief Representative of Cambodia, seconded tht:3 resolution. · A vote was taken, and the Chairman declared the resolution adopted unanimously. The Chairman announced 1ha t the final Plenary Session would commence at 4:00 p.m. and adjourned the Meeting at 10:00 a~tm 11