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Press release
EOHR holds a seminar in Qena on: "The Egyptian Citizen and Health Care: Violated Rights"
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) held a seminar entitled: " The Egyptian Citizen and Health Care: Violated Rights". The seminar was held on September 4, 2003 at Al Tawaye' Youth Center in the city of Esna, Qena governorate.
For the sake of discussing such issue, EOHR invited a number of researchers and experts in the field of health care. The seminar was also attended by a number of the people concerned with the issue in the governorate of Qena. After reviewing the papers submitted in the seminar, the floor was given for discussion which focused mainly on: - Health care as a human right guaranteed by the international instruments and the Egyptian Constitution. - The impediments hindering the possibility of offering poor citizens high-standard health care, and the means to overcome such obstacles.
The seminar was concluded by reaching some recommendations that would guarantee a good health care for citizens, the most significant of which are: 1- Increasing governmental aid for free treatment in public hospitals and elevating the standard of health service in such hospitals. 2- Re-structuring the system of health insurance, fighting corruption in such sector and working on the extension of health insurance so as to cover a wider range of people. 3- Enhancing the supervision of the Ministry of Health and the governmental agencies on hospitals with a view to offering citizens health care that is in conformity with the standards of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Finally, the attendants called upon the governor of Qena and the Ministry of Health to promptly finish the establishment of the Esna Central Hospital.
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