Activities of Ivan JAKOVČIĆ related to 2014/2204(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Ebola crisis: long-term lessons (A8-0281/2015 - Charles Goerens) HR
Amendments (13)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Ebola crisis is systemic at local and regional level and also at national and global governance level;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas this epidemic is unpredictable and constantly uncontrollably evolving;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas, across the region, there are still no adequate facilities in the locations required for isolating and diagnosing patients; whereas in many places in West Africa, bad coordination is an issue, resulting in serious gaps in the response;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas other elements that are essential to an Ebola response – such as awareness- raising and community acceptance, safe burials, contact tracing, alerts and surveillance, access to health care and education for non- Ebola patients – are still lacking in parts of West Africa;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that innovativeclear and unambiguous responses are needed that acknowledge the role of women as key actors in protecting their families and communities and in breaking the chains of transmission, including measures to engage women’s organisations in schemes to provide information on the importance of health- care and EVD-related precautions, to train EVD-survivors as nurses, cleaners and laundry workers, as well as to ensure equal protection of all hospital staff;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Remains deeply concerned about the heavy toll of EVD on women and girls, and believunderlines that failure to address gender- specific issues will have a negative impact on the prospects for long-term recovery.
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas it is essential to set up robust and effective health systems in all developing countries;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the Ebola crisis has dragged the countries in the area affected deeper into recession;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Deplores the loss of lives in the region devastated by the Ebola outbreak and expresses its sincere condolences to the governments of the countries and to the people directly and indirectly affected by the outbreak;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission, in coordination with the Member States, to put in place control systems to ensure that the entire budget and other resources allocated to stopping the Ebola outbreak is actually used to fight the epidemic in the countries affected by the virus and not for other purposes;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the establishment of a permanent 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 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the current crisis cannot be solved by health systems alone, but that a concerted and long term approach involving different sectors (healthcare, education and training, sanitation, food aid, drinking water) is needed to address the critical gaps in all essential services; stresses that education, understood in a comprehensive way (also covering the cultural dimension and beliefs of these countries), and not only in terms of understanding and addressing the current Ebola outbreak, is key;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Encourages taking immediate and effective action to coordinate and strengthen medical research and the production of efficient medicines and vaccines against Ebola and to carry out scrupulous infection control;