Angola: Parliament Ratifies International Health Regulation
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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
8 July 2008
Posted to the web 8 July 2008
Luanda
The National Assembly Tuesday here ratified the International Health Regulation of 2005, with view to protect and respond to the public health in the case of international spreading of diseases.
The advantage of the adoption and implementation of the regulation has to do with providing of a new legal framework for national infectious disease surveillance and control.
Reinforcing of public health in the trips and transports and reducing the danger of global infectious disease through the effective capacity of response at airports, ports and land border, are among the country's advantages.
According to the Health minister, Ruben Sicato, the diploma is very important in the current context of globalisation, in which prevail, more and more, the facilities of communication among the world States and the possibility of containing diseases that can pose danger to the public health.
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The minister underlined that this is a global document (that should be ratified by all the countries of the world, whether they are WHO members or not) and respects the human dignity, defends the rights and freedom of citizens, as well as the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and of the World Health Organisation Constitution (WHO). The Regulation was approved with 127 votes in favour, no against and none abstention.
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