1. World
Health Organization (WHO):-
This organization was established by the United
Nations in 1948. its main aim is to free humanity from diseases but it also
seeks to promote health of the individual in body, mind and social adjustment.
The main functions of WHO are as follows:
a.
To assist the
member nation will medical personnel during emergencies such as civil or
international wars, earth-quakes, foods, epidemics or other natural
catastrophier.
b.
To assist in the
training of medical and paramedical staff.
c.
To encourage and
promote good health by giving health education by means of all sorts of
communication media.
d.
To give
immunization against various diseases e.g. tuberculosis, polio, smallpox
etc.
e.
To give member
countries information about epidemics.
2. United
Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF):-
This is another international agency of the United
Nations created to deal with children’s problems. The body provides various
equipment. For school children, particularly those essential for their
recreational facilities. It also provides them with free milk. The funds are
also spent to provide hospitals with milk for infants and their mothers and for
the training of midwives. This project mortality rate of children.
3. Food
and Agricultural Organization (FAO):-
The FAO is a United Nation’s (UN) agency established
in 1943. It provides technical aids necessary for better production of food
both plant and animal.
4. The Red Cross – this is a voluntary
organization.
Each country has its own national body of the Red
Cross whose functions include:-
a.
Training of people during peace: in the methods
of aiding the sick, particularly victims of various accidents at sports and
games.
b.
Performing first
aid activities and training personnel in first aid.
c.
The
rehabilitation of victims of wars, floods, draught, earthquakes etc.
National:
1.
Ministry of
Health – responsible for the general health policy. It provides the funds to
carry out the various projects including building programmes provision of
medical personnel, equipment, and drugs.
2.
Public Health
Authority - It is the duty of this body to execute health schemes. It ensures
that adequate and good water is supplied to all citizens. It also gives mass
vaccination or inoculations against smallpox, measles etc.
3.
Ministry of
Information – It educates the public about government plans through the media
of posters, loudspeakers, mobile cinemas.
4.
Port Health
Authority – Their functions include:-
a. To see that passengers into or out of the country
possess valid health certificates e.g. that they have been vaccinated against
diseases such as yellow fever, smallpox, cholera and sometimes, typhoid fever.
b. They prevent passengers from and epidemic zone from
entering the country, imposing a quarantine regulation on such persons.