WORLD
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
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ORGANISATION MONDIALE
DE LA SANTÉ
EB25/Min/20 Rev.l
4 March I960
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Twenty-fifth Session
ORIGINAL:
ENGLISH
MINUTES OP THE TWENTIETH MEETING
Palais des Natlonst Geneva
Monday , 1 February i960 , at 9.30 a . m .
CHAIRMAN*.
Professor E. J. Y. AUJAIEU
CONTENTS
1.
International Health and Medical Research Year (continued) . . . . . .
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2.
Proposals by the Birector-General for the provisional agenda of
the Thirteenth World Health Assembly
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496
3.
Review of the proposed programme and budget estimates for I96 I
(continued from the seventeenth meeting, section 5)
Adoption of Report to the Thirteenth World. Health. A e a e m b l y .........
4.
Closure of the session
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Twentieth Meeting
Monday, 1 February i960 , at 9-30 а.ш.
Present
Designating Country
Professor E. J. Y. AUJALEU, Chairman
France
Professor M. N. ETEMADIAN (alternate
to Dr A. H. Radji), Vice-Chairman
Iran
Dr М. M. PENIDO, Vice-Chairman
Brazil
Dr D. CASTILLO, Rapporteur
Venezuela
Dr A. J. METCALFE, Rapporteur
Australia
Dr A. 0. ABU SHAMMA
Sudan
Dr R. BAIDYA
Nepal
Dr V. BUTROV (alternate to
Professor V.' M. Zhdanov)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Dr Dia E. CHATTY
United Arab Republic
Dr J. D. HOURIHANE
Ireland
Dr LE-CUU-TRUONG
Viet Nam
Dr L. MOLITOR
Luxembourg
Dr J. MUNOZ-PUGLISEVICH
Peru
Dr Abdul RAHIM
Afghanistan
Mr C. W. THOMAS (adviser to
Dr H. van Zile Hyde)
United States of America
Secretary:
Dr M. G. CANDAU
Director-General
* Under Rule 28 of the Rules of Procedure
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Representatives of Intergovernmental Organizations
United Nations
International Labour Organisation
League of Arab States
Mr N- LUKER
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Dr R. A. METALL
Dr R. MURRAY
Dr A. T. SHOUSHA
Representatives of Non-governmental Organizations
International Committee of Catholic Nurses
Miss J, RAZAIARINORO
International Union against Tuberculosis
Dr J. E. PERKINS
League of Red Cross Societies
Dr Z. S. HANTCHEF
World Medical Association
Dr J. MAYSTRE
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INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH YEAR: Item 2.3 of the Agenda
(Documents EB25/53, EB25/53 Add.l and EB23/71) (continued)
Dr DOROLLE, Deputy Director-General, read the text of the draft resolution
presented by Dr van Zile Hyde and amended by Dr Hourihane, in accordance with the
decision taken at the previous meeting.
Decision:
2.
The draft resolution was adopted (see resolution EB25.R72).
PROPOSALS BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR THE PROVISIONAL AGENDA OF THE
THIRTEENTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY: Item 6.2 of the Agenda (Documents EB25/67
and EB25/67 Corr.l)
The DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL recalled that, in accordance with Rule 4 of the
Rules of Procedure of the Health Assembly, the Board h a Q to prepare the provisional
agenda of each regular session of the Health Assembly after consideration of the
proposals submitted by the Director-General.
The Director-General’
s proposals
appeared in documents EB25/67 and EB25/67 Corr.l and took into account the Board's
decisions at its twenty-fifth session.
References were included to those
resolutions adopted by the Board on which the Health Assembly would have to take
decisions.
In view of the decision just taken by the Board in regard to item 2.8 of the
agenda, the title of that item should be amended to read "World Health Year" and a
reference should be added to the draft resolution Just adopted, which would be
resolution EB25.R72.
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The title of item 2.12 of the agenda which appeared in document EB25/67 as
’
’
Study on the nature and extent of the health problems of seafarers and the health
services available to them", v?ith reference to resolutions WHA12.23 and EB25.R32,
should be amended to read as follows:
2.12
Health problems of seafarers:
2.12.1
Study on the nature and extent of the health problems of
seafarers and of the health services available to them
Handbook of Resolutions and Decisions,
5th ed., p. 37» resolution WHA12.23
2.12.2
Venereal disease treatment of seafarers (Brussels International
Agreement of 1924)
Resolution EB25.R32.
There was a slight typing error in item 2.15 which concerned only the French
te xt .
Under item 3-5 (Assembly procedures for examining the programme, budget and
ancillary administrative, financial and personnel matters), a reference should be
added to resolution EB25 *R67.
The CHAIRMAN submitted the following draft resolution for the consideration
of the Board:
The Executive Board
APPROVES the proposals of the Director-General for the provisional
agenda for the Thirteenth World Health Assembly as amended.
Deolslon:
The draft resolution was adopted (see resolution EB25.R73).
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REVIEW OF THE PROPOSED PROGRAMME AND BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR 196ls Item 3.2 of
the Agenda (Official Records No. 97) (continued from the seventeenth meeting,
section 5)
Adoption of Report to the Thirteenth World Health Assembly (Document ЕВ25/Г7)
Dr CASTILLO, Rapporteur, introduced the draft report (document EB25/77) of
which the Board had already approved Chapter V.
He expressed the thanks of the Rapporteurs to the Secretariat for the help it
had given in the preparation of the report, which had greatly facilitated the work
of the Board.
The report followed the lines of previous reports by the Board to the Health
Assembly and incorporated a number of useful suggestions made during the session.
The DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL reminded the Board that the appendices and charts
referred to in the report, apart from Appendices 10 and 11, were those attached to
the first report of the Standing Committee on Administration and Finance
(document EB25/65)•
The CHAIRMAN invited comments on the draft report.
Dr CHATTY, while expressing his agreement with the substance of the draft
report, which was based on the resolutions adopted by the Board, was not satisfied
with its form.
The report gave the impression that the members of the Board had
been content merely to endorse whatever had been put before it.
As the members of the Board attended in their own personal capacity, they had
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a priceless opportunity to express their views without embarrassing anyone in their
own countries.
Many interesting comments had been made, for example, on technical
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meetings and conferences , experts, new posts, budgetary matters and so on, and all
the comments had been answered by the Secretariat.
The report had wiped out all
those discussions and replaced them by mere clichés, such as "the Board endorsed
the estimates" or "the Board had no further comment to make".
On page 125, for
example, reference was made to the discussion concerning the Advisory Committee on
Medical Research and it was stated that "the Board expressed satisfaction with the
development of the research programme".
Paragraphs 260 and 26l on the same page
dealt with the discussion on the proposed meeting of representatives of research
organizations of the chemical manufacturing industry, and concluded that:
"The
Board had no further comments to make on those estimates and, in the light of the
Committee's review and of the Director-General's explanations, considered them to
be satisfactory."
It was true that the estimates had been approved,;but the way
in which the discussion was summarized 4id not accord with the Board's dignity and
undermined its responsibility.
The CHAIRMAN submitted the draft report for the consideration of the Board,
section by section, pointing out for each section the comments and recommendations
made by the Board, and, when appropriate, reading out the significant passages.
He suggested that Dr Chatty should at that stage propose any amendments he might
wish to make to those parts of the report which he considered did not adequately
reflect the views of the Board.
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Dr MÜNOZ-PUGLISEVTCH proposed that# under Inter-regional and Other Activities
(Annex 2), paragraph 186 on page 108 should be deleted.
In the discussion of the
recent earthquake in Peru, Dr Castillo had submitted a draft resolution supported
by Mr Olivero, but through a misunderstanding, due to the interpretation, the
resolution had not been discussed or adopted.
Paragraph 186 did not, in his
opinion, reflect the true feeling of the Board and could be interpreted as meaning
that the Board had not shown its sympathy in the matter.
Dr ABU SHAMMA proposed that the Board might simply substitute for paragraph 186
a comment such as:
"The Board took note of the recent earthquake in Peru and its
effect on public health conditions."
The CHAIRMAN drew attention to pages 14-16 of the provisional minutes of the
thirteenth meeting (EB25/Min/13)^which summarized the discussion of the question.
He referred to Dr Castillo's suggestion to adopt a resolution, and pointed out that
the Board had not felt it necessary to adopt a formal resolution, but haü agreed
that if the Government of Peru made a request to the Director-General, assistance
should be given as ha<J been suggested by the Regional Director for the Americas.
He suggested that paragraph 186 of the draft report should be redrafted to include
a comment along the lines suggested by Dr Castillo, to the effect that the Board
took note of the catastrophe, expressed its sympathy to the Government of Peru and
requested the Director-General to assist that Government.
The paragraph would
then continue with a reference to the reply of the Regional Director that a public
health project already existed in Peru under which assistance to the Government
could be arranged if so requested.
Pages 330-332 of these final minutes
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Dr MUN0Z-PU6LISEVICH agreed that such a paragraph would be clearer and would
reflect more accurately the feeling of the Board.
The CHAIRMAN said that the revised paragraph would be submitted for considera
tion by the Board after the suspension of the meeting.
He noted that, with the
exception of that paragraph, no remarks had been made on any part of the report.
He declared that the Board had completed its consideration of the draft report
except for paragraph
186 .
Dr LE-CÜU-TRUONG, referring to Chapter IV, Part II, section 2 of the report,
pointed out that, if the twenty-sixth session of the Executive Board was held in
October and the twenty-seventh session in New Delhi after the Health Assembly, the
members elected in 1958 would attend only five sessions of the Board while those
elected for 196l would attend seven.
He wae drawing attention to the matter so
that the Board might consider it at its next session.
The CHAIRMAN confirmed that the matter would be dealt with at the twenty-«lxtly
session of the Board when the date of the twenty-seventh session «as fixed.
The meeting was suspended at 10.40 a.m.
and resumed at 12.10 p.m.
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The DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL introduced the following paragraph which it was
proposed should be substituted for paragraph 186 of the report:
"During the discussion the Board noted a statement by a member on the
recent earthquake in Peru, and agreed to express its sympathy with the
Government on this disaster through the Director-General.
In reply to a
question on the possibilities of assistance by WHO, the Regional Director
informed the Board that there was an existing public health project in the
country under, which assistance to the Government could be arranged if so
requested."
Dr MUNOZ-PUGLISEVICH expressed his satisfaction with the revised draft.
Dr METCALFE suggested that the paragraph should be amended by ending the first
sentence after the words "the recent earthquake in Peru, " and redrafting the
remainder of the sentence to read:
"The Board requested the Director-General to
express its sympathy to the Government on that disaster."
Decision:
(1)
The revised paragraph 186 was adopted with the amendment proposed by
Dr Metcalfe.
(2)
The report, as amended, was adopted as a whole (see Official Records
No. 100).
Dr CHATTY wished it to be recorded that he had abstained on the adoption of
the report.
He would also request that the statement he had made earlier in the
meeting be recorded in full in the minutes or wherever else would be appropriate.
The CHAIRMAN answered that there would be no obstacle to recording Dr Chatty's
abstention and his earlier remarks would undoubtedly be reflected in the minutes of
the meeting.
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Dr CHATTY asked whether there was any other possibility, apart from the
minutes, of recording his statement.
The CHAIRMAN replied that, on the advice of the Director-General, he saw no
other possibility than that existing under Rule 20 of the Board's Rules of
Procedure, which provided that the Secretariat should prepare the minutes of
meetings in both working languages and distribute them to the members, who should
inform the Secretariat in writing of any corrections they wished to have made.
Under that rule, Dr Chatty would receive the provisional minutes of the meeting
and would be free to submit appropriate corrections if he found that they did not
correctly reflect his remarks.
Dr CHATTY explained that the reason for his inquiry was that he intended to
raise the question again at a later date.
4.
CLOSURE OP THE SESSION
The CHAIRMAN thanked the members for the confidence they had shown in him and
for making his task so easy and pleasant.
The discussions had taken place in an
excellent atmosphere of mutual understanding, courtesy and co-operation, and almost
all the decisions of the Board had been taken unanimously.
The budget for 1961
had been unanimously approved.
The preparatory work done by the Standing Committee on Administration and
Finance had greatly expedited the examination by the Board of the programme and
budget estimates and he thanked D r Metcalfe, as Chairman of the Standing Committee,
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and Dr van Zile Hyde, as Rapporteur, for their efforts.
He also wished to thank
the Vice-Chairman and the Rapporteurs of the Board for their valuable assistance.
He congratulated the Director-General and the Secretariat for their part in the
success of the Board's session.
On behalf of the Board, he wished to convey good wishes to Mr Olivero for
complete recovery from his illness.
Dr MURRAY (International Labour Organisation) said that he had followed the
discussions with the greatest interest as WHO and ILO had many problems in common.
Two technical questions had arisen in which the mutual collaboration of the
two organizations was of great value.
The first was occupational health.
Reference
was made in document ES25/62 to the Recommendation on the Organization of Occupational
Health Services in Places of Employment, adopted by the International Labour Conference
at its
43 rd
session in June 1959*
The Board would also be aware that a conference on
occupational health, under the joint auspices of ILO and the Western Pacific Region of
WHO, would be held in Tokyo in October I960;
and that a Joint conference with the
European Region had been held in London in November 1959 on "The contribution of the
industrial medical officer to the psycho-social climate in industry".
The second subject of mutual consultation and co-ordinated co-operation was
that of radiation protection, concerning which the Board had adopted a resolution
(EB25.R63) drawing attention to the importance of the continued constructive
co-operation of WHO with the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of
Atomic Radiation, IAEA and other appropriate agencies.
As was mentioned in document
EB25/62, the ILO was preparing international instruments on the protection of workers
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against radiation.
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The question had been discussed at the 4j5rd session of the
International Labour Conference and would be discussed again at the 44th session
in June i960 .
Such instruments were the result of tripartite discussion between
representatives of governments, employers and workers.
In the preparation of the
texts, the ILO had had the opportunity, and indeed the need, for the closest
collaboration with WHO, on which it was sure it could count in the future and
which it could promise wholeheartedly to reciprocate.
The CHAIRMAN expressed the Board's appreciation of the co-operation between
WHO and the ILO and gave an assurance that every effort would be made to make it
even more valuable in the future.
He pointed out that, in introducing document
EB25/62, the Deputy Director-General had specially drawn the attention of the
Board to the fact that the International Labour Conference had on its agenda the
second reading of an international Convention on the protection of workers against
radiation.
Dr CHATTY thanked the Chairman for the way in which he had welcomed him as a
member of the Board.
He congratulated him on the charm, wisdom and fairness he
had displayed, and joined with him in expressing gratitude to the Director-General
and the Secretariat for their efforts.
Dr MUNOZ-PUGLISEVICH supported the views expressed by Dr Chatty.
He was
convinced that the twenty-fifth session of the Executive Board had completed a
further step towards the achievement of better health throughout the world.
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The CHAIRMAN conveyed his good wishes to those members who were retiring and
who would not be attending the next session of the Board - Dr Metcalfe, Dr Haber no 11,
Dr Rahim, Dr van Zile Hyde and Dr Chatty.
also retiring.
He also mentioned Dr Togba, who was
They would no doubt meet on many ocoasions in the future at the
Health Assembly, or as members of the Board again.
\
The CHAIRMAN declared closed the twenty-fifth session of the Board.
The meeting rose at 12.40 p.m.
Members submitting corrections to provisional minutes which they receive
after the close of the session are kindly requested to do so by return of post,
in order that the definitive minutes may be sent to Member States as soon as
possible. Such corrections should be addressed to Chief Editor, Official Records,
World Health Organization, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
MHO/12.60
W ORLD H fA LT H
ORGANIZATION
ORGANISATION MONDIALE
DE LA SANTÉ
Ex e c u t i v e b o a r d
EB25/Min/20i
1 February I96 G
T wenty-fifth Session
ORIGINAL:
ENGLISH
PROVISIONAL MINUTES OF THE TWENTIETH MEETING
Palais des Nations, Geneva
M onday, 1 February i960 , at 9-30 a.m.
CHAIRMAN!
Professer E. J. У AUJALEU
CONTENTS
Page
1.
International Health and Medical Research Year (continued) . . . . . .
4
2.
Proposals by the Director-General for the provisional agenda
for the Thirteenth World Health Assembly .............................
4
Review of the proposed programme and budget estimates for 1961 . . . .
6
3.
Adoption of Report to the Thirteenth World Health Assembly .........
4.
Notes
Closure of the session ..................................................
6
11
Corrections to these provisional minutes should be submitted in writing to
the Chief, Records Service, Room
within 48 hours of their distribution.
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page 2
Twentieth Meeting
Monday, 1 February i960 , at 9-30 a.m.
Designating Country
Present
Professor E. J. Y. AUJALEU, Chairman
France
Professor M. N. ETEMADIAN (alternate
to Dr A. H. Radji), Vice-Chairman
Iran
Dr M. M. PENIDO, Vice-Chairman
Brazil
Dr D. CASTILLO, Rapporteur
Venezuela
Dr A. J. METCALFE, Rapporteur
Australia
i
Dr A. 0. ABU SHAMMA
Sudan
Dr R. BAIDYA
Nepal
Dr V. BUTROV (alternate to
Professor V. M. Zhdanov)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Dr Dia E. CHATTY
United Arab Republic
Dr J. D. HCURIHANE
Ireland
Dr L E -CUU-TRUONG
Viet Nam
Dr L. MOLITOR
Luxembourg
Dr J. MUNOZ-PUGLISEVICH
Peru
Dr Abdul RAHIM
Afghanistan
Mr C. W. THOMAS (adviser to
Dr H. van Zile Hyde)1
United States of America
Secretary:
Dr M. G. CANDAU
Director-General
1 Under Rule 28 of the Rules of Procedure
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Representatives of Intergovernmental Organizations
United Nations
Mr N
LUKER
International Labour Organisation
Dr R. A. METALL
Dr R. MURRAY
League of Arab States
Dr A. T. SHOUSHA
Representatives of Non-governmental Organizations
International Committee of Catholic Nurses
Miss J. RAZAIARINORO
International Union against Tuberculosis
Dr J. E. PERKINS
League of Red Cross Societies
Dr Z. S. HANTCHEF
World Medical Association
Dr J. MAYSTRE
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1.
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH YEAR: Item 2.3 of the Agenda
(Documents EB25/53, EB25/53 Add.l and EB25/71) (continued)
Dr DOROLLE, Deputy Director-General, read the text of the draft resolution
presented by Dr van Zile Hyde and amended by Dr Hourihane, in accordance with the
decision taken at the previous meeting.
Decision:
2.
The draft resolution was adopted (see resolution EB25.R72).
PROPOSALS BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR THE PROVISIONAL AGENDA OF THE
THIRTEENTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY: Item 6.2 of the Agenda (Documents EB25/67
and EB25/67 Corr.l)
The DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL recalled that, in accordance with Rule 4 of the
Rules of Procedure of the Health Assembly, the Board haQ to prepare the provisional
agenda of each regular session of the Health Assembly after consideration of the
proposals submitted by the Director-General.
The Director-General's proposals
appeared in documents EB25/67 and EB25/67 Corr.l and took into account the Board’
s
decisions at its twenty-fifth session.
References were included to those
resolutions adopted by the Board on which the Health Assembly would have to take
decisions.
In view of the decision just taken by the Board in regard to item 2.8 of the
agenda, the title of that item should be amended to read "World Health Year" and a
reference should be added to the draft resolution just adopted, which would be
resolution EB25.R72.
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The title of item 2.12 of the agenda which appeared in document EB25/67 as
"Study on the nature and extent of the health problems of seafarers and the health
services available to them", with reference to resolutions WHA12.23 and EB25.R32,
should be amended to read as follows:
2.12
Health problems of seafarers:
2.12.1
Study on the nature and extent of the health problems of
seafarers and of the health services available to them
Handbook of Resolutions and Decisions,
5th ed., p. 3 7 y resolution WHA12.23
2.12.2
Venereal disease treatment of seafarers (Brussels International
Agreement of 1924)
Resolution EB25.R32.
There was a slight typing error in item 2.15 which concerned only the French
text.
Under item
3.5
(Assembly procedures for examining the programme, budget and
ancillary administrative, financial and personnel matters), a reference should be
added to resolution EB 25 .R67 .
The CHAIRMAN submitted the following draft resolution for the consideration
of the Board:
The Executive Board
APPROVES the proposals of the Director-General for the provisional
agenda for the Thirteenth World Health Assembly as amended.
Decision:
The draft resolution was adopted (see resolution EB25-R73)-
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3*
REVIEW OP THE PROPOSED PROGRAMME AND BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR 1961:
the Agenda (Official Reoords No. 97) (continued)
Item 3-2 of
Adoption of Report to the Thirteenth World Health Assembly (Document EB25/77)
Dr CASTILLO, Rapporteur, introduced the draft report (document EB25/77) of
which the Board had already approved Chapter V.
He expressed the thanks of the Rapporteurs to the Secretariat for the help it
had given in the preparation of the report, which had greatly facilitated the work
of the Board.
The report followed the lines of previous reports by the Board to the Health
Assembly and incorporated a number of useful suggestions made during the session.
The DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL reminded the Board that the appendices and charts
referred to in the report, apart from Appendices 10 and 11, were those attached to
the first report of the Standing Committee (document EB25/65).
The CHAIRMAN invited comments on the draft report.
Dr CHATTY, while expressing his agreement with the substance of the draft
report, which was based on the resolutions adopted by the Board, was not satisfied
with its form.
The report gave the impression that the members of the Board had
been content merely to endorse whatever had been put before it.
As the members of the Board attended in their own personal capacity, they had
a priceless opportunity to express their views without embarrassing anyone in their
own countries.
Many interesting comments had been made, for example, on technical
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page 7
meetings and conferences, experts, new posts, budgetary matters and so on, and all
the comments had been answered by the Secretariat.
The report had wiped out all
those discussions and replaced them by mere cliches, such as "the Board endorsed
the estimates" or "the Board had no further comment to make".
On page 125, for
example, reference was made to the discussion concerning the Advisory Committee on
Medical Research and it was stated that "the Board expressed satisfaction with the
development of the research programme".
Paragraphs 260 and 26l on the same page
dealt with the discussion on the proposed meeting of representatives of research
organizations of the chemical manufacturing industry, and concluded that:
"The
Board had no further comments to make on those estimates and, in the light of the
Committee's review and of the Director-General's explanations, considered them to
be satisfactory."
It was true that the estimates had been approved, but the way
in which the discussion was summarized did not accord with the Board's dignity and
undermined its responsibility.
The CHAIRMAN submitted the draft report for the consideration of the Board,
section by section, pointing out for each section the comments and recommendations
made by the Board, and, when appropriate, reading out the significant passages.
He suggested that Dr Chatty should at that stage propose any amendments he might
wish to make to those parts of the report which he considered did not adequately
reflect the views of the Board.
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Dr MUNOZ-PUGLISEVICH proposed that, under Inter-regional and Other Activities
(Annex 2), paragraph 186 on page 108 should be deleted.
In the discussion of the
recent earthquake in Peru, Dr Castillo had submitted a draft resolution supported
by Mr Olivero, but through a misunderstanding, due to the interpretation, the
resolution had not been discussed or adopted.
Paragraph 186 did not, in his
opinion, reflect the true feeling of the Board and could be interpreted as meaning
that the Board had not shown its sympathy in the matter.
Dr ABU SHAMMA proposed that the Board might simply substitute for paragraph 186
a comment such as:
"The Board took note of the recent earthquake in Peru and its
effect on public health conditions."
The CHAIRMAN drew attention to pages 14-16 of the provisional minutes of the
thirteenth meeting (EB25/Min/13) which summarized the discussion of the question.
He referred to Dr Castillo's suggestion to adopt a resolution, and pointed out that
the Board had not felt it necessary to adopt a formal resolution, but ha<3 agreed
that if the Government of Peru made a request to the Director-General, assistance
should be given as had been suggested by the Regional Director for the Americas.
He suggested that paragraph 186 of the draft report should be redrafted to include
a comment along the lines suggested by Dr Castillo, to the effect that the Board
took note of the catastrophe, expressed its sympathy to the Government of Peru and
requested the Director-General to assist that Government.
The paragraph would
then continue with a reference to the reply of the Regional Director that a public
health project already existed in Peru under which assistance to the Government
could be arranged if so requested.
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page 9
Dr MUNOZ-PUGLISEVICH agreed that such a paragraph would be clearer and would
reflect more accurately the feeling of the Board.
The CHAIRMAN said that the revised paragraph would be submitted for considera
tion by the Board after the suspension of the meeting.
He noted that, with the
exception of that paragraph, no remarks had been made on any part of the report.
He declared that the Board had completed its consideration of the draft report
except for paragraph
186 .
Dr LE-CUU-TRUCNG, referring to Chapter IV, Part II, section 2 of the report,
pointed out that, if the twenty-sixth session of the Executive Board was held in
October and the twenty-seventh session in New Delhi after the Health Assembly, the
members elected in 1958 would attend only five sessions of the Board while those
elected for
1961
would attend seven.
He was drawing attention to the matter so
that the Board might consider it at its next session.
The CHAIRMAN confirmed that the matter would be dealt with at the twenty-sixth
session of the Board when the date of the twenty-seventh session was fixed.
The meeting was suspended at 10.4-0 a.m.
and resumed at 12.10 p.m.
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page 10
The DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL introduced the following paragraph which it was
proposed should be substituted for paragraph
186
of the report:
"During the discussion the Board noted a statement by a member on the
recent earthquake in Pe**u, and agreed to express its sympathy with the
Government on this disaster through the Director-General.
In reply to a
question on the possibilities of assistance by WHO, the Regional Director
informed the Board that there was an existing public health project in the
country under which assistance to the Government could be arranged if so
requested."
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Dr MUNOZ-PUGLISEVICH expressed his satisfaction with the revised draft.
Dr METCALFE suggested that the paragraph should be amended by ending the first
sentence after the words "the recent earthquake in Peru," and redrafting the
remainder of the sentence to read:
"The Board requested the Director-General to
express its sympathy to the Government on that disaster.”
It was so agreed.
Decision: With that amendment, the revised draft of paragraph l86 was adopted.
Decision: The report as a whole was adopted as amended.
Dr CHATTY wished it to be recorded that he had abstained on the adoption of
the report.
He would also request that the statement he had made earlier in the
meeting be recorded in full in the minutes or wherever else would be appropriate.
The CHAIRMAN answered that there would be no obstacle to recording Dr Chatty's
abstention and his earlier remarks would undoubtedly be reflected in the minutes of
the meeting.
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Dr CHATTY asked whether there was any other possibility, apart from the
minutes, of recording his statement.
The CHAIRMAN replied that, on the advice of the Director-General, he saw no
other possibility than that existing under Rule 20 of the Board's Rules of
Procedure, which provided that the Secretariat should prepare the minutes of
meetings in both working languages and distribute them to the members, who should
inform the Secretariat in writing of any corrections they wished to have made.
Under that rule, Dr Chatty would receive the provisional minutes of the meeting
and would be free to submit appropriate corrections if he found that they did not
correctly reflect his remarks.
Dr CHATTY explained that the reason for his inquiry was that he intended to
raise the question again at a later d a t e .
4.
CLOSURE OP THE SESSION
The CHAIRMAN thanked the members for the confidence they had shown in him and
for making his task so easy and pleasant.
The discussions had taken plaoe in an
excellent atmosphere of mutual understanding, courtesy and co-operation, and almost
all the decisions of the Board had been taken unanimously.
The Proposed Programme
and Budget Estimates had been unanimously approved.
The preparatory work done by the Standing Committee on Administration and
Finance had greatly expedited the examination by the Board of the Programme and
Budget Estimates and he thanked Dr Metcalfe, as Chairman of the Standing Committee,
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and Dr van Zile Hyde, as Rapporteur, for their efforts.
He also wished to thank
the Vice-Chairman and the Rapporteurs of the Board for their valuable assistance.
He congratulated the Director-General and the Secretariat for their part in the
success of the Board's session.
On behalf of the Board, he wished to convey good wishes to Mr Olivero for
complete recovery from his illness.
Dr MURRAY (International Labour Organisation) said that he had followed the
discussions with the greatest interest as WHO and ILO had many problems in common.
Two technical questions had arisen in which the mutual collaboration of the
two organizations was of great value.
The first was occupational health.
Reference
was made in document EB25/62 to the Recommendation on the Organization of Occupational
Health Services in Places of Employment, adopted by the International Labour Conference
at its 4^rd session in June 1959*
The Board would also be aware that a conference on
occupational health, under the joint auspices of ILO and the Western Pacific Region of
WHO, would be held in Tokyo in October i960 ;
and that a Joint conference with the
European Region had been held in London in November 1959 on "The contribution of the
industrial medical officer to the psycho-social climate in industry".
The second subject of mutual consultation and co-ordinated co-operation was that
of radiation protection, concerning which the Board had adopted a resolution (EB25 .R63 )
drawing attention to the importance of the continued constructive co-operation of WHO
with UNSCEAR, IAEA and other appropriate agencies.
As was mentioned in document
EB25/62, the ILO was preparing international instruments on the protection of workers
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against radiation.
The question had been discussed at the 43rd session of the
International Labour Conference and would be discussed again at the 44th session
in June i960 .
Such instruments were the result of tripartite discussion between
representatives of governments, employers and workers.
In the preparation of the
texts, the ILO had had the opportunity, and indeed the need, for the closest
collaboration with WHO, on which it was sure it could count in the future and
which it could promise wholeheartedly to reciprocate.
The CHAIRMAN expressed the Board's appreciation of the co-operation between
WHO and the ILO and gave an assurance that every effort would be made to make it
even more valuable in the future.
He pointed out that, in introducing document
EB25/62, the Deputy Director-General had specially drawn the attention of the
Board to the fact that the International Labour Conference had on its agenda the
second reading of an International Convention on the protection of workers against
radiation.
Dr CHATTY thanked the Chairman for the way in which he had welcomed him as a
member of the Board.
He congratulated him on the charm, wisdom and fairness he
had displayed, and joined with him in expressing gratitude to the Director-General
and the Secretariat for their efforts.
Dr MUNOZ-PUGLISEVICH supported the views expressed by Dr Chatty.
He was
convinced that the twenty-fifth session of the Executive Board had completed a
further step towards the achievement of better health throughout the wor ld .
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The CHAIRMAN conveyed his good wishes to those members who were retiring and
who would not be attending the next session of the Board - Dr Metcalfe, Dr Habernoll,
Dr Rahim, Dr van Zile Hyde and Dr Chatty.
also retiring.
He also mentioned Dr Togba, who was
They would no doubt meet on many occasions in the future at the
Health Assembly, or as members of the Board again.
The CHAIRMAN declared closed the twenty-fifth session of the Board.
The meeting rose at 12.40 p.m.