Activities of Marlene MIZZI related to 2014/2204(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Ebola crisis: long-term lessons (A8-0281/2015 - Charles Goerens)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. Whereas the escalation of the Ebola epidemic has caused not only a medical crisis claiming thousands of lives but also social and economic pressures and political instability in the affected countries and wider regions.
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas this epidemic is unpredictable and constantly evolving and therefore continues international support is needed in relation to all aspects of the epidemic response from community education and mobilisation, training of health personnel and medical supportive care to coordinated epidemiological control, tracing and surveillance;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes the progress and contributions made at international and European level but stresses that there is still considerable amount of work that needs to be done to help countries contain and eradicate the Ebola epidemic; Reiterates the importance of a European strategy to coordinate the Ebola response at Union level and to enhance the state of preparedness and protection within the Union itself;
Amendment 92 #
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 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 as well as of medical teams, qualified health workers, laboratories, epidemiologists and protective equipment among others;
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Encourages taking immediate actions to create a financial environment for research for the prevention of further outbreaks, coordinate and strengthen medical research and the production of efficient medicines and vaccines against Ebola and to carry out scrupulous infection control;