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Question
State the main functions of World Health Organisation.
Solution
Functions of World Health Organization (WHO):
- To promote and support projects for research on diseases
- To collect and supply information about the occurrence of diseases of epidemic nature such as cholera, plague and yellow fever
- To lay pharmaceutical standards for important drugs, to ensure purity and size of the dose
- To organise campaigns for the control of epidemic (widespread) and endemic (local) diseases
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