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FIRST WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY A/Prog/51 .... — 8 July 1948
ORIGINALï ENGLISH 1 2 . 1 . 7 . 4 . 5 SCHISTOSOMIASIS
COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMME
' D r a f t Resolution on Schistosomiasis submitted by the Delegation of Egypt.
WHEREAS the World Health O r g a n i z a t i o n , in order to perform i t s s t a t u t o r y f u n c t i o n s i n r e l a t i o n to Chapter I I , A r t . 2,
paragraph (g) of the C o n s t i t u t i o n , "to stimulate and advance work to e r a d i c a t e . . . endemic and other d i s e a s e s " and of paragraph ( i )
" t o promote . . . the improvement of economic and working conditions and other a s p e c t s of environmental h y g i e n e " , should take
advantage of the advice of e x p e r t s in the problem of s c h i s t o s o m i a s i s from v a r i o u s p a r t s of the world,
THE FIRST WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY RESOLVES s
That the Executive Board be i n s t r u c t e d to e s t a b l i s h during i t s f i r s t s e s s i o n an advisory Committee of Experts, belonging to the p r i n c i p a l c o u n t r i e s i n t e r e s t e d in combating s c h i s t o s o m i a s i s , and chosen from the v a r i o u s branches of medicine which contribute to the study, p r o p h y l a x i s and c o n t r o l of t h i s d i s e a s e „
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