The 213° week of the vigil
in front of WHO
| Our demands to WHO 1. To take immediate action, in collaboration with appropriate partners including the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, to ensure that medical care, treatment and adequate radioprotection are provided to populations in the affected areas. 2. As a priority, to coordinate with appropriate partners, the importation of uncontaminated food to meet all nutritional needs of the populations living in the affected areas and the implementation of interventions (such as daily administration of apple pectin) known to facilitate elimination of radioactive isotopes and significantly reduce radioactive doses delivered to sensitive cells/organs. 3. To establish a Commission on Radiation and Health made up of independent experts with no connections, financial or otherwise, to industry or industry associations, to review available evidence on the health consequences of the Chernobyl accident, including all studies undertaken by independent researchers, and to report their findings to the World Health Assembly in May 2010. 4. Within the Commission, to establish working groups to examine and report on evidence available and gaps in research in relation to different aspects of radiation and health, and as a priority, a working group on the health consequences of chronic, low dose, internal radiation and a working group on damage to the human genome from both internal and external sources. 5. To publish and make available in full, the proceedings of the Geneva 1995 and Kiev 2001 international consultations on the health consequences of Chernobyl. 6. To review the 1959 agreement between the WHO and the IAEA and to propose amendments which will ensure that WHO may fulfil its constitutional mandate in the area of radiation and health as follows: «to act as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work», «to promote and conduct research in the field of health» and «to provide information, counsel and assistance in the field of health» (Article 2a, n and q). |
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