5 Amendments of Piernicola PEDICINI related to 2014/2204(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas, in February 2015, the WHO reported for the first time that year an increase in weekly infection rates in the three countries with high transmission levels, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, where the response to Ebola still a major challenge;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Requires the Member States and the Commission to coordinate and strengthen medical research and the production of efficient medicines and vaccines against Ebola, and to advance the necessary clinical trials for existing candidate treatments and ensure that any vaccines are made available to all free of charge;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the response of the Member States and the Commission has been slow and insufficient, and that financial support was shy and did not respond to the severity of the alerts that NGOs such as Médecins Sans Frontières, Emergency and others have launched since the beginning of the epidemic; considers that the scaling-up of the Commission’s financial commitment should be stronger in terms of humanitarian and development aid to respond to the crisis; considers it necessary to increase the availability and the volume of financial resources;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the international community to complete without delay the supply of protective clothing (PPE-personal protective equipment) to the 14 countries exposed to contagion and to plan production and distribution so as to ensure their availability should the virus spread to any other country in the world;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Member States to ensure that medical staff have the right to all necessary medical treatment should they become infected and, as a matter of course, medical evacuation to their countries of origin if, like the EU Member States, they have the necessary Ebola treatment facilities;