Victims of ineptitude : (Record no. 30748)
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| fixed length control field | 02822cam a2200217 a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 070416s2007 inu 000 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781425974077 |
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| -- | (Sirsi) a90107 |
| 060 #4 - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | WA 540 MW6 2007ZA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Zawide, Firdu. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Victims of ineptitude : |
| Remainder of title | an insider's account of injustice within the World Health Organization / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Firdu Zawide with Hilary Bassett |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Bloomington, Ind : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Authorhouse, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 292 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | There are many organizations committed to the fight against ill-health, the best known being the World Health Organization, founded in 1948 and funded from the pockets of ordinary people and their governments. Consider the extraordinary battle the WHO waged against smallpox in the 1970s and won. The latest and probably the toughest challenge so far, is that of AIDS, currently killing millions of people worldwide and leaving behind hords of tiny orphans. The WHO has been one of the leaders in this war which is being waged by its staff of international civil servants who take intense personal risks by undertaking heroic action to fight the deadly bacteria and viruses. Those facts and ideas are reflected in this book by a man who travelled for more than two decades in hostile places with scant regard for his own good health and security, in the fight for better health and living conditions among some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people. It comes as a shock therefore to discover that in the writer's experience, the WHO can be a cold organization which shows little respect for its hardworked staff and considerably wasteful, misspending of its precious public funding to pay for errors and mismanagement. This is a story of human tragedy and massive disillusinment. It will page after page surprise readers of goodwill and reason who will surely find it hard to believe that the administration of such a large outfit with such great responsibility can behave in the way illustrated in the book. This is the saddening picture painted in this book by a long serving and highly placed official who writes movingly from his own experience. The writer and two valued professional colleagues venture to a remote part of Africa on humanitarian WHO mission. The story relates what becomes of them, the callous treatment they and their families receive, the legal lengths the WHO leadership-right to the very top of the organization has been prepared to go to evade their responsibilities to their long serving employees. It is a fight for justice which has at the time of writing yet to come to an end. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | eng. |
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| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | World Health Organization |
| General subdivision | administration and organization. |
| 650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | World health. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bassett, Hilary. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | NLM Classification Scheme |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Permanent Item | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Bill Date | Koha item type |
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| NLM Classification Scheme | MISSING | WHO HQ | WHO HQ | BORROWABLE-COLL-STACKS | 16/04/2007 | Y | WA 540 MW6 2007ZA | 00080754 | 12/09/2016 | 1 | 12/09/2016 | Books |