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World Health Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) held its 26th session in Geneva from October 25 to November 4, 1960, under the chairmanship of Dr. H. M. Penido. Dr. M. G. Candau, Director-General of WHO, reported on WHO assistance to the Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) deriving from the request of the Secretary-General and the Security Council in July 1960 that WHO take part in the UN emergency program in the Congo. Twenty-eight WHO staff members had immediately been assigned to the Congo, and within a few weeks 28 medical teams had been sent by 25 national Red Cross, Red Crescent, and Red Lion and Sun Societies as the result of an appeal by WHO to the International Committee of the Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies. These teams made it possible to get a number of hospitals operating again in the cities and in the interior. To meet the long-range medical needs of the Congo where there were as yet no native doctors, assistants medicaux were selected for further training and given WHO fellowships to attend medical schools so that they might become fully qualified doctors. To cope with the crisis the UN guaranteed the funds necessary for WHO to engage 130 health workers of all categories to work for the Congolese government. Dr. Candau concluded his report by emphasizing that, if political stability and normal administration could be effectuated, the medical problems of the Congo would not be difficult to solve; the preventative work carried out under the Belgian administration could then be resumed and the threat of the spread of disease effectively averted.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Specialized Agencies
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International Organization , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Spring 1961 , pp. 309 - 313
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1961

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1 World Health Organization, Official Records, Nos. 106 and 107, “Executive Board, Twenty-Sixth Session,” Parts I and II, Geneva, 1960Google Scholar; and WHO Chronicle, 01 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 26–29Google Scholar. For a summary of the 25th session, see International Organization, Summer 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 3), p. 473–475CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 World Health Organization, Official Records, No. 105, “The Work of WHO, 1960; Annual Report of the Director-General to the World Health Assembly and to the United Nations,” Geneva, 1960Google Scholar. For a summary of the 1959 annual report, see International Organization, Summer 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 3), p. 475Google Scholar.

3 WHO Chroncile, 11 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 11), p. 440Google Scholar.

4 Ibid., p. 445–447.

5 Ibid., p. 441–443.

6 Ibid., p. 444–445.

7 Ibid., p. 443–444.

8 Ibid., October 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 10), p. 411–412, and ibid., September 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 9), p. 370.

9 Ibid., October 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 10), p. 411–412, and ibid., November 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 11), p. 449.

10 Ibid., January 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 32–53, and ibid., February 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 2), p. 67–68.

11 Ibid., February 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 2), p. 68.

12 Ibid., October 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 10), p. 413, and ibid., February 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 2), p. 68–69.