Health | Tue Oct 20, 2015 12:53pm EDT Related: HEALTH
States could be sanctioned for public health failings: WHO boss
A U.N. panel is considering ways to hold governments to account for failing to stick to global health rules, World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan said on Tuesday.
"This goes back to governments. If they sign up to the international health regulations they need to honor their commitment. Because if they don?t do their part they pose a risk to their neighbors and beyond," she told a news conference.
A global health crisis review set up by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is looking at how to make them accountable, according to Chan.
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Weak health care systems have been blamed for thE recent West African Ebola epidemic, and Chan said poor standards in Saudi Arabia and South Korea had hastened the spread of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
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States could be sanctioned for public health failings: WHO boss
A U.N. panel is considering ways to hold governments to account for failing to stick to global health rules, World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan said on Tuesday.
"This goes back to governments. If they sign up to the international health regulations they need to honor their commitment. Because if they don?t do their part they pose a risk to their neighbors and beyond," she told a news conference.
A global health crisis review set up by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is looking at how to make them accountable, according to Chan.
...
Weak health care systems have been blamed for thE recent West African Ebola epidemic, and Chan said poor standards in Saudi Arabia and South Korea had hastened the spread of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
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