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WHO Earns Rap From Malaysia Over Dengue Inaction
Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai, who is chairing a World Health Organisation regional conference this week, said the UN body needed to push countries to adopt a more comprehensive strategy to deal with the threat.
"We want them to do a lot more. We want the WHO to do more on dengue, we think they are not doing enough," he told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting of the organisation's Asia Pacific member states.
Malaysia itself is reeling from a 53-percent increase in dengue with about 38,000 cases and 117 deaths so far this year.
"We want the WHO to... implement more comprehensive measures to eradicate this communicable disease effectively. We urge the WHO to pay more attention to dengue," Liow said.
"It is multi-pronged, it cannot just be handled by the health ministry, the WHO must come in forcefully (and) enable more governments... to take the whole government approach.
"In some other countries they only leave (dengue prevention) to the health ministry. The WHO must enable a multi-agency, inter-ministry approach as well as a community approach to come in. It is not just one agency that can prevent dengue."
Liow said the WHO was closely following Malaysia's proposed field trials later this year of genetically modified anti-dengue mosquitoes.
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