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Sunday, May 25, 2014
Health: approved the first plan of action against the deaths of babies – Web Weather
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L ‘Annual Meeting of the World Health’ Organization (WHO) meeting in Geneva, approved the “Plan first ever worldwide” to end the preventable deaths of infants and cases of stillbirths by 2035.’s plan – says the World Health Organization ‘- calls on countries to pursue the objective to record less than 10 infant deaths per 1,000 live births and stillbirths less than 10 per 1000 live births by 2035. Every year nearly 3 million children die in the first month of life and the stillbirth-rate (death in the last 3 months of pregnancy or during childbirth) are 2.6 million. According to the WHO, most of these deaths could be prevented by effective interventions also from the point of view of the costs (cost-effective). The objectives of the Plan will require all countries to invest in high-quality care ‘for interventions and coaching before, during and after birth for every pregnant woman and her baby boy. During the annual meeting (May 19 to 24), the 67 / World Health Assembly ‘has approved more’ than 20 resolutions on public health issues of global importance, the fight against drug-resistance access to basic medicines and palliative care to the challenge of violence that affects women and girls in particular. To the Director-General of WHO, Dr Margaret Chan, and ‘treaty’ assembly intense, with a record number of agenda items, documents and resolutions and nearly 3,500 registered delegates. ” This, said Chan, “reflects the growing complexity ‘of a large number of health issues and the keen interest of governments to deal with them.” The World Health Assembly ‘and’ the supreme decision-making body of WHO. E ‘, among other things, responsible for determining the policies of the Organization, the Director-General to appoint, supervise the financial policies and approve the budget for the proposed program.
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