Brazil is planning to host a meeting of the World Health Organization in the subsequent year on the objectives of the contemporary public healthcare sector, the nation's Health Minister, Jose Gomes Temporao made pronouncement on Tuesday.

The Minister stated that the meeting is going to take place in Rio, which is most probably in the month of October of 2011.

Referring to the International Conference on Primary Health Care, which took place in Kazakhstan in September in the year 1978, the Minister said that the idea is to make this meeting a second Alma-Ata.

At the time of this occasion, envoys from all over the world expressed the urgency to take immediate actions, in order to promote health of humankind.

Temporao in addition commented on Brazil's countrywide crusade of vaccination against the H1N1 flu, which initiated in the month of March and was supposed to end last Friday.

The crusade saw an extension until June 2, so as to include kids aged two to five years old in the vaccinated age groups.

According to a statement released by the Health Ministry in the previous week, over 61 million Brazilians have by now been administered vaccination against fighting H1N1 flu or influenza.