Margaret Chan Countries Quotations

The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation in terms of having enough doctors. And many of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa. You know, that part of the world alone needs one million doctors.

There is a high degree of support for voluntary compliance with the International Health Regulations. It will help countries to build capacity.

Countries have improved since SARS. They understand the importance of responding and being as prompt and transparent as possible.

SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations.

They have agreed to donate another 2 million courses, that is 20 million doses, for use by affected countries who reported human cases to reduce morbidity and mortality and to delay the spread of the infection.

Clearly, countries expressed the wish to have more. But at least we have something to rely upon for the time being.