CoE: Public hearing on the handling of the Swine Flu pandemic
A public parliamentary hearing titled "The handling of the H1N1 pandemic: more transparency needed?” is to be held on the fringe of the plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg from 8.15-10 a.m. on Tuesday 26 January, immediately followed by a press conference.
The hearing, organised by the Assembly’s Committee on Social, Health and Family Affairs, will bring together representatives of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and of European vaccine manufacturers, as well as independent medical experts, to discuss this topic with parliamentarians. Some members of the Assembly - including the initiator and outgoing Chair of PACE’s Sub-committee on Health Wolfgang Wodarg (Germany, SOC)[1] - requested in a motion in December that the Assembly look into this question.
The hearing is open to the press. Both hearing and press conference will be webcast live (and there will be archiv-videos to be found on the PACE-Website).
[1]. Mr Wodarg ceases to be a member of the Assembly, and Chair of its Sub-committee on Health, on Monday 25 January and will become a Honorary Member of the PACE. He will attend the hearing in an expert capacity.
