Sentences with phrase «emergency committee declared»
On February 1, 2016, a World Health Organization (WHO) emergency committee declared clusters of birth defects suspected of being linked to an epidemic of Zika virus in the Americas as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
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But the review committee warns they were let down by a lack of coordination between the three emergency services, which saw them all declare a major incident separately, and a lack of proper means of communication.
In July, after an Emergency Committee meeting, WHO declared MERS - CoV was not an imminent public health crisis.
«A key question will be whether the pharmaceutical companies, which had invested around $ 4 billion in developing the swine flu vaccine, had supporters inside the emergency committee, who then put pressure on WHO to declare a pandemic,» says the article in the BMJ.
At the president's request, Makovicky and other members of a special museum committee have begun the formal process of declaring «financial exigency» — an emergency status that would allow for layoffs of tenured scientists at the world - class institution.
The President with concurrence of two (2) members of the Executive Committee may declare an emergency.