HEALTH VICE MINISTER AT SESSION ON WHO REFORM

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ Mongolia's government is fully appreciating a reform policy of the World Health Organization (WHO), has said Vice Minister of Health J.Tsolmon.


She participated in an open debate held within the Executive Board special session on the WHO reform that began on November 1 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The session was opened by Dr Margaret Chan, the WHO Director-General, with a presentation of the WHO reform. Dr Chan underlined it is time to reform the organization because many problems are awaiting a solution, such as infectious diseases, natural disasters, trans-boundary threats and health problems of population caused by the world's economic crisis.

Another open discussion has run on projects to be realized for priorities of a program which is one of the compositions of the reform policy.

The Vice Minister J.Tsolmon stated that the WHO should keep its priorities in activities focused on infectious and non-infectious diseases and on ensuring the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including children and mothers' health, reproductive health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, and providing low and middle-income countries with necessary medicine and vaccines.

On the second day of the session, the members are to consider the administrative reform of the WHO and the internal structure.

B.Khuder

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