Meeting of Experts on the Rising Cost of Medical Care under Social Security

7. The meeting was opened by Mr. S.K. Jam, Deputy Director-General, on behalf of the Director-General of the ILO. Having welcomed the participants, Mr. Jam emphasised the importance attached by the ILO to the question of ensuring in member States a sound development of social security systems, especially those designed to provide medical care guarantees to the population. For this purpose, studies had been carried out and their findings were now submitted for appraisal by the meeting, so that distinguished international experts might assist the ILO in providing member States with guidelines and recommendations on the specific issue of how to deal with the rising costs of the medical care programmes implemented through social security legislation. Since the matter was closely related to national health policy, the ILO had sought the collaboration of the World Health RCMC/l977/D.12 (Rev.)