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Having examinedlthe report submitted by the Regional Director on the same subject,
1. RECOGNIZES the growing need for adequate health services for the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of occupational diseases and injuries;
Recognizing in particular the responsibility of health
administrations for the provision of occupational health services to small-scale industries,
2. EXPRESSES its satisfaction with the arrangement made by the
Regional Director to hold the first series of national seminars on this subject in 1972;
3. BELIEVES that occupational health services should be
designed in the form of country programmes to be phased according to national priorities and to include the development of the necessary educational and training facilities:
4. REQUESTS the Regional Director:
. (i) to pursue his effort along the lines already undertaken, due consideration being given to the total health priorities of Member countries:
(ii) to study this subject further, including the possibility of establishing training programmes of regional interest.
Third meeting, 22 September 1971
WPR/RC22.R4 COMMUNITY WATER SUPPLY AND SEWERAGE The Regional Committee,
Having considered resolution WHA24.55, adopted by the Twenty- fourth World Health Assembly on "Community Water Supply":
Being cognizant that in several countries of the Western Pacific Region the provision of community water supply is still below acceptable standards of quality and quantity and that the situation is worse as concerns sewerage and the sanitary disposal of human wastes,
1. NOTES that the World Health Organization is prepared to furnish increased technical assistance towards the solution of these problems;
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2. RECOMMENDS that:
(i) health agencies assume a more active role in the promotion of community water supply and sewerage facilities and in the establishment and enforcement of standards of quality;
(ii) extensive consultation take place between the health agency and other agencies concerned, such as the operational agency for water supply and sewerage and planning and
financing bodies, on the establishment of realistic develop- ment targets for the second United Nations Development Decade;
(iii) appropriate country targets be established in these fields, due consideration being given to the global
recommendations on the one hand and the resources in staff, materials and capital available to the individual countries,
on the other.
Third meeting, 22 September 1971
WPR/RC22.R5 MALARIA
The Regional Committee,
Recognizing that malaria is an overall problem in the Region which can affect all countries,
1. VIEWS with concern the fact that in some malarious areas where technical feasibilities for eradication have been well-defined, it has not been possible to pursue a vigorous campaign to eradicate the disease because of deficiencies in planning, management,
administrative problems and particularly lack of government funds;
2. EMPHASIZES the importance of governments giving the necessary financial support to such programmes, particularly in areas where the chances of eradication are reasonably satisfactory;
3. INVITES the attention of governments to resolutions WHA20.14, WHA21.22 and WHA22.39 of the World Health Assembly emphasizing the need to accord priority to the provision of personnel and of the financial and administrative support to the implementation of the programmes and also to take appropriate measures to !safeguard the gains already achieved;
4. URGES governments to give full administrative and financial support to such campaigns, and
5. REQUESTS the Regional Director to give all possible assistance to governments encountering problems in connexion with the
continuation of their campaigns.
Fifth meeting, 23 September 1971
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