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Thu, 05/22/2014 - 12:41
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DEPARTMENT HEAD OF HEALTH MINISTER AT WHA COMMITTEE MEETING

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Representing the government of Mongolia, a head of the Health Ministry’s Department of Monitoring and Domestic Audit S.Togsdelger took part in a debate on World Health Organization’s (WHO) reforms which ran Wednesday within the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. Noting that Mongolia’s government backs a course of the reforms in the WHO, Togsdelger said Mongolia has appreciated the WHO Secretariat's upgrading correlation among the WHO regional committees, the Executive Committees and the Assembly. In order to plan a programme of the WHO and to allocate reserves to countries, the Mongolian delegate highlighted an importance of focusing on the number of low-income and vulnerable people in a country instead of considering the classification of the countries as rich, poor and middle-income. He cited a speech of the WHO Director-General Ms Margaret Chan, saying that the number of those rich and high income nations that full of poor people will be still high in case of not augmenting the budget for health sector despite a high economic growth. For these reasons, he proposed utilizing the equality indicator as an independent indicator for evaluating countries’ rates.

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