Activities of Nicola CAPUTO related to 2014/2204(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Ebola crisis: long-term lessons (A8-0281/2015 - Charles Goerens) IT
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. Whereas the World Health Organisation was first alerted by the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease on 23 March 2014, but it was not until 8 August that the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee declared it a public health emergency of international concern.
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. Whereas EVD eradication faces significant challenges such as the beginning of the wet season, increasing geographical spread, widespread transmission, continued community resistance and unsafe burials.
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas other elements that are essential to an Ebola response – such as laboratory capacity to diagnose and confirm infection, awareness- raising and community acceptance, safe burials, contact tracing, alerts and surveillance, access to health care for non- Ebola patients – are still lacking in parts of West Africa, including protection of health facilities and health workers – are still lacking in parts of West Africa, while these activities are interdependent and should all be in place to contain the epidemic;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Stresses that a food crisis seems increasingly likely to follow in the wake of the epidemic, which has devastated small- scale farmers. Calls on the Member States, the Commission and the international community to invest in their long-term development in order to ensure that farming households and West Africa’s future food security do not remain at risk.
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to strengthen the health systems in the West African countries affected; stresses that Ebola is definitely a disease with a high mortality rate, but that there are other fatal diseases in the area that should be treated as well (such as malaria); considers that the EU should invest in and encourage capacity building in the field in order to address the problem of the weak health systems which has left people in many parts of West Africa without access to basic healthcare, so that local staff may be provided with the training and adequate resources to face future epidemics (Ebola or any other illness); considers that the efforts of third party donors should be channelled into building up capacity in the field;
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Considers that the Members States as well as the EU institutions should assess the opportunity of creating a health professional’s database of trained emergencies specialists’ to be deployed in a timely manner, as well as to assess developing countries in strengthening their public health systems.
Amendment 161 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Requires all actors involved in the response to take a much more flexible approach and allocate resources according to the most pressing needs at any given time and place. Stresses that remote rural areas should benefit from more international support.