The World OSE Union made public today its resolutions adopted at the conclusion of its five-day international conference last week. It expressed appreciation to the Joint Distribution Committee for the assistance and generous support given to the OSE in the past and announced that the conference has adopted general principles which would serve as a basis for a new agreement between OSE and JDC.
The OSE conference affirmed its belief that a “very important” field of OSE activity was to be found in Israel. It suggested that a full OSE medical program in the Jewish State be worked out in cooperation with the Israel Ministry of Health and other competent Israeli authorities.
Among other decisions arrived at during the five-day parley was one to give program priority to preventive medicine and health education by national branches of OSE. However, the conference decided, in countries where OSE operated among huge masses of poor people and where local health arrangements appeared inadequate the local OSE committee should give priority to curative medicine. Abel Shaban of South Africa was named president of the OSE central board and Boris Pregel, former president of the American OSE, was elected honorary president of the World OSE Union.
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