Luanda — The regional director of the World Health Organisation for Africa, Luís Gomes Sambo, Monday proposed the regional committee to create an African fund for public health emergency situations.

Luís Sambo opined that this fund aims to increase financial support to prevent natural calamities, preparing for emergency situations and the restoring of the health systems after emergencies.

The regional director regretted, during his speech on the opening ceremony of the organisation 60th session, the fact of having a slow health development in the most of the regional countries, inviting them to share and improve, by updating the national policies and implementing efficient programmes.

He also said that health situation is not so good because of many sicknesses, mainly those that were just being eliminated in some countries, added to problems of lack of water supply, poverty, among other reasons, becoming a bundle in people's lives

According to Luís Sambo, this meeting happens in a particular moment of challenges and opportunities for the region, saying "we faced an economic crisis, but health is also being recognized as an essential factor for economic and social development, for peace and stability".

The purpose is, he said, that this 60th session of regional African committee presents contributions to all these critical issues all over the world, related to sanitation priorities and human development in this century.

"The African population who suffer mostly with the impact of poverty, human calamities, epidemics and the bundle sicknesses are waiting for a solution to their problems", he stressed.

Luís Gomes Sambo praised the efforts of the communities, governments and partners of the sanitation development on improving the results of health in Africa, toward reaching Millennium Development Goals related to the health.