Activities of Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY related to 2014/2204(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Ebola crisis: long-term lessons (A8-0281/2015 - Charles Goerens) ES
Ebola crisis: long-term lessons (debate) ES
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the Ebola crisis: the long-term lessons and how to strengthen health systems in developing countries to prevent future crises PDF (204 KB) DOC (168 KB)
Amendments (17)
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the Ebola crisis has resulted in another problem which Médecins Sans Frontières has referred to as 'a crisis within a crisis', namely that people with conditions other than Ebola are not going to hospital for fear that they will be infected with the virus; and at the same time hospitals and health staff have no capacity to deal with other diseases due to the resources mobilized to fight the Ebola epidemic;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas access to medicines is a key part of the right to health;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
Recital L b (new)
Lb. whereas 2 billion people worldwide do not have access to the vaccines or treatments they need to stay alive and healthy;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the establishment of a European rapid response capability comprising experts, laboratory support staff, epidemiologists and logistics facilities that can be deployed extremely swiftly; draws attention in particular to the contribution the EU can make to screening at land and maritime borders and to the fact that the Union could seek to emulate and benefit from the level of excellence achieved by the US health authorities in screening at airports;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Commission to help the three countries affected to develop their own public health systems in order for them to be able to meet basic healthcare needs and to build up the infrastructure required to ensure that all their citizens have access to public healthcare; calls on international donors, especially the European Commission and EU Member States to increase Official Development Assistance (ODA) to those countries through country systems such as budget support to build resilient health systems, including support countries to plan, cost and establish functioning health posts and district hospitals that serve health needs and that also connect with referral systems;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses, in general, the need for developing countries to give budgetary priority to setting up robust public social security and public health systems, building sufficient numbers of well- equipped sustainable healthcare infrastructure (in particular laboratories, water and sanitation facilities) and offering high-quality basic services and healthcare; Nevertheless, acknowledges that crisis such as the current cannot be solved by health system alone, but a comprehensive approach involving different sectors such as education and training, sanitation, food safety, drinking water, is needed to address the critical gaps in all essential services; at the same time that stresses that education, covering the cultural dimensions and beliefs are key as well in the recovery;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the long-term costed plans needed to build resilient and comprehensive health systems must further include an adequate number of trained health workers, access to sufficient medical supplies and robust health information systems;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for research infrastructure to be bolstered by the establishment of a regional public infection disease research centre in West Africa;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Supports the introduction of universal health cover free at the point of use based on partnerships that will result in sustainable health systems; stresses, in this regard, that investment in a strong public sector delivering an equitable and quality service is essential to providing universal health coverage and to ensuring that people living in poverty, unable to access public healthcare, do not have to rely on and pay for dubious quality services;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Supports the idea of a 'Marshall Plan' to help kick-start those countries' economies while respecting their policy space to take development-related decisions in accordance with the demands of their populations and ensuring debt sustainability;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. WelcomesInsist on the need of international efforts to alleviate the international debt burden of the countries affected by the Ebola virus;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Believes that the risk posed by the structural under-funding of EU non- military humanitarian action cannot be ignored during the mid-term review of the multiannual financial framework;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that fair tax financing is the most equitable and sustainable system for raising and distributing funding for healthcare; urges donors and international agencies, including the EU, to support countries to introduce effective measures to enable them to raise domestic resources via fair taxation; highlights that tax avoidance by large companies and the tax breaks they receive from governments cost developing countries around $100 billion a year; calls on governments and international donors, including the EU, to support reforming international tax rules to prevent tax evasion and illicit financial flows;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Commends the humanitarian aid workers and medical staff who have risked their lives in the efforts to contain this major health crisis;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Believes that access to medicines should, as a matter of principle,must no longer be dependent on patients' purchasing power but should instead be universal and geared to patients' needs, and that market forces should not be the sole determinant of which medicines to produce; and that R&D financing must be unlinked from the price of products that result from it; stresses that the Ebola crisis proved the intellectual property monopolies on pharmaceutical products which allowed companies to set the prices of the new medicines and vaccines they develop and skew R&D in order to maximise their profits; highlights that these rules stem from the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS); calls on the EU and its Member States to endorse a Research & Development treaty which promotes public funding for R&D and is focused on the needs of public health in order to provide vaccines, diagnostics and medicines for diseases such as Ebola;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Call the European Union and its member states to fulfilling with the EU´s Policy Coherence for Development principle set on FTEU Article 208 though the promotion of fair and equitable international trade, medical research and innovation policies that foster and facilitate universal access to medicines;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Underlines the need for the EU, its Member States, donors and international agencies to build on the experiences from Ebola outbreaks in other countries that highlight a series of key factors to control diseases, including effective health systems, rapid government action, meaningful community participation, use of media to disseminate information and rapid coordinated international response; urges governments to enable civil society to play their role in ensuring accountability and transparency by all stakeholders and to foster trust among communities by ensuring their participation in decision-making at the highest political level;