WORLD HEALTH BODY
AID SOUGHT BY 34 NATIONS
(Rec. 7 p.m.) GENEVA, Feb. 25. Thirty-four of the 58 member countries have asked the United Nations World Health Organisation for help in the first quarter of 1949. They will share the total allocation of £179,000, according to figures before the organisation’s executive board. The largest allocation of £53,000 will go to 16 countries in the European region—seven of them behind the Iron Curtain. The money will be spent on health fellowships, demonstration teams, and advisory work over a wide range of diseases. It was disclosed that only 65 per cent, of the £1.215,000 owing from member governments in 1948 had been paid. Thirty-eight governments, including Russia. France, and China, had still paid nothing. Britain and the United States had both paid in full.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25740, 28 February 1949, Page 7
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