The Regional Committee,
Having noted resolution WHA21.20 adopted by the Twenty-first World Health Assembly requesting the Regional Committee to undertake an analysis of the problems of training professional and auxiliary personnel, * and
Having considered the report submitted by the Regional Director on the training of national health personnel,
- ENDORSES the suggestions made in the report on the type of information which might be collected;
- RECOGNIZES the urgency and the importance of the subject;
- CONSIDERS there has been insufficient time to collect accurate data;
- RECOMMENDS that Member countries should be invited to collect the necessary data which should be analyzed and made a subject of a seminar or, alternatively, referred for consideration to an expert committee;
- REQUESTS the Regional Director to transmit to the Director-General the working paper, the summary records and this resolution for the information of the Executive Board.
* WHO Handbook of Resolutions and Decisions, Vol. I, 1973, P.48