Pan American Sanitary Bureau and WHO Meet to Consider Regional Health Programmes

The Fifteenth Session of the Directive Council of the joint Pan American Sanitary Bureau and the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas met from 31 August to 11 September in Mexico City. The meeting considered plans to eradicate tuberculosis and other communicable diseases from the Americans, discussed studies on mortality and recent developments in national health programmes, among other things.

Photographed as the opening meeting was called to order (left to right), Mr. Walter C. Buchanan, Minister of Communications of Mexico; Admiral Manuel Zermeno Araico, Minister of the Marine; Dr. Abraham Horwitz, Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau in Washington; Dr. José Alvarez Amézquita, Minister of Health and Chairman of the Fifteen Session; Mr. José Gorostiza, Minister of Foreign Relations and Mr. Alfredo Del Mazo, Minister of Hydraulic Resources. [c. September 1964]

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