Chinese Health Minister ChenZhu on Friday called on the World Health Organization to involve emerging nations more in order to take better and more transparent decisions.

"I suggest that decision making mechanisms need to be improved by inviting experts from emerging market nations to participate in the emergency committee, to improve decision making it and make it more transparent,"

Zhu told the Lessons Learned and Suggestions session of the first global meeting on the deadly new A/H1N1 flu virus in Cancun, a resort town in Caribbean coast state Quintana Roo. "The international reporting system could be improved beyond encouraging and facilitating member states to strengthen solidarity and cooperation based on mutual respect," he said.

He also called for the restructuring of pandemic reporting system to make it more global and more up to date, and asked the WHO to review the scientific definition of flu and develop strategies to prevent its mutation. The WHO should also ask its members to exercise more domestic control, he added.

Source: Xinhua