Article 3 The administrative department of public health under the State Council shall be in charge of supervision and control of food hygiene throughout the country.

The agencies for food hygiene supervision set up by the administrative departments of railways and communications shall exercise their functions and duties for food hygiene supervision jointly prescribed by the administrative departments of public health under the State Council and other relevant departments under the State Council.

Article 29 The administrative departments of industry and commerce shall be responsible for the control of food hygiene on urban and rural markets the administrative departments of public health shall be responsible for the supervision and inspection of food hygiene.

The food hygiene supervisors appointed by departments in charge of railways and communications agencies shall be issued with the certificates by the competent authorities at a higher level.

Each health education officer, attached to the office of the deputy provincial director, is assigned to cover and be responsible for the health education activities of two to three deputy directors of health services Ministry of Health units.

(b) GPR No. 7 of 30 October 1992 concerning the management and organization of the health sector contains overall guidelines for the organization and structure of the health sector, including parliamentary monitoring of the health sector.

Article 15 If the State has not formulated hygiene standards for a certain food, the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions, or municipalities directly under the Central Government may establish local hygiene standards for that food and report them to the administrative department of public health under the State Council and the competent standardization administration department under the State Council for the record.

The measures for the issuance and control of hygiene licences shall be worked out by the administrative departments of public health of the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions, or municipalities directly under the Central Government.

The health and sanitation sector is also in dire straits.

The Ministry of Public Health is the competent authority for the adoption of measures to monitor and carry out health policies, including control of the peaceful uses of micro organisms and production of vaccines.

WHO advocated strongly for the cause of HSR with all interested partners and provided technical support to the Ministry of Health.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNHCR spearheaded the Inter Agency Health Evaluations in Humanitarian Crises Initiative, which comprise sectorwide evaluations that examine the collective impact of health sector interventions.

The contacts developed by PAHO in health related fields as well as in the disaster community (through its Emergency Preparedness Programme) have helped to bring about a synergy between the health sector and the emergency response community at the national level and throughout Central America.

Article 22 With regard to the food indicated to have specific health functions, the products and its description must be submitted to the administrative department of public health under the State Council for examination and approval its hygiene standards and the measures for control of its production and marketing shall be formulated by the administrative department of public health under the State Council.

For example, the Minister of Health noted that his ministry had to compete with the NGO sector for staff.

(a) Investment in the water and sanitation sector

A technical cooperation programme document for the health sector has also been prepared through the collaboration of the Ministry of Health, WHO and UNDP.

b Doctors of all grades in the Department of Health Services.

National Health Policy 2001, The way forward, Agenda for Health Sector Reform.

Article 32 The administrative departments of public health of the local people's governments at or above the county level shall exercise their functions and duties for food hygiene supervision within the scope of their jurisdiction.

The health sector had also been accorded priority.

244. Human resources development in the health sector.

Health is one of the social sectors that is directly dependent on others, and especially on the economy.

Other relevant departments under the State Council shall, within the scope of their respective functions and duties, be responsible for control of food hygiene.

Women also head five major departments in the ministry, and there are two women deputy director generals.

Article 27 Enterprises engaged in food production or marketing as well as food vendors must obtain a hygiene licence issued by the administrative department of public health before they shall be permitted to apply for registration with the administrative departments of industry and commerce.

Veterinary hygiene inspection procedures for slaughtered livestock and poultry shall be formulated jointly by the relevant administrative departments under the State Council and the administrative department of public health under the State Council.

D. Lessons to be drawn from the health services sector for the development of capacity and expanding exports of services in other sectors

112. With WHO technical assistance, the Ministry of Health has started a programme aimed at reforming the sector.

Such supervisors shall be qualified professionals and issued with such certificates by the administrative departments of public health at the corresponding levels.

In Republika Srpska, the competent institution is the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.

The question of regulation of the health sector is more relevant where government is not the sole provider.

The observer for Canada said that an important component of the Government apos s strategy in the health sector was increased community control of indigenous health programmes.

Article 7 Principal and supplementary foods intended specially for infants and preschool children shall conform to the nutritive and hygienic standards promulgated by the administrative department of public health under the State Council.

Article 55 Measures for the administration of food for export shall be formulated separately by the national import and export commodities inspection department in conjunction with the administrative department of public health and other relevant administrative departments under the State Council.

Such an approach should be reflected in close cooperation between law enforcement and the health sector the public and the private sector law enforcement agencies and the chemical industry and the authorities and drug users, to achieve a change in their attitudes.

The objective of a joint PAHO NASA project is to contribute to the establishment of a global health network in the health and disaster sectors in Central American countries.

However, the proportion of female managers in the health sector remains modest, which is 14.4 at department, institute and hospital levels, and 17.6 at provincial levels.

There is a need for more generation, management and sharing of knowledge about effective cross sectoral actions for health

Women's involvement in the formal sector has mainly been urban based, mostly as civil servants in the health and education sectors.

However, the corollary notion that non health sector actions are also needed to successfully achieve health sector objectives is not always equally well appreciated.

Article 35 Food hygiene supervisors shall carry out the tasks assigned to them by the administrative department of public health.

The sectoral breakdown of available foreign funding was mainly for electricity (33 per cent), education (12 per cent), sanitation (11 per cent), water supply (9 per cent) and management and implementation (6 per cent).

The modern healthcare sector has totally collapsed.

Sectoral theme Fresh water, including clean and safe water supply and sanitation