CD13.R4: Assistance to the schools of medicine in Perú

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13rd DIRECTING COUNCIL

13rd SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE

THE 13rd DIRECTING COUNCIL,

Bearing in mind the official request of the Representative of Peru 1 that the Pan American Health

Organization cooperate with the Government of that country in the solution of technical problems at

present faced by the School of Medicine of the University of San Marcos;

Bearing in mind that the Directing Council, in Resolution II, has approved the program and budget

of the Pan American Health Organization for 1962, and

Bearing in mind that the improvement of medical education and training is one of the objectives of

the Organization,

RESOLVES

1. To invite the Member Governments to study the possibility of lending all possible moral and

material support to the School of Medicine of the University of San Marcos in Lima.

2. To recommend to the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau that, without detriment to

the projects approved for 1962, he utilize funds that may be available from the regular budget, as

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cooperation in the solution of the School's technical problems, and that if necessary he include a

specific project for this school in the general program of the Organization for 1963.

3.To recommend to the Director that similar assistance to the other schools of medicine in Peru be

given upon request by the Government and within the limits of the resources of the Organization.