By Dr. Marriam Gul Thaheem
Health care is one of the basic needs of human like air water and food. Everyone has right to attain the highest standard of physical and mental health, without any social and gender discrimination.
Health care system clearly encompasses the preventive health care system for example health immunization. Public health care measures and public health care promotions, medical and surgical treatments of established diseases and their treatments. While talking about the so called human rights does a common man receives basic health facilities, Quality Medicines, Hygiene cares, Clean drinking water and sanitation, education, workplace and safe environment for Females regardless of the sex, gender, race and socioeconomic conditions.
There are many barriers which are noticed in the health care system like wise high cost, inability to access to the required care, and inadequate quality care to the millions of people which are incapable of having an access to the system.
The current economic crisis is therefore trying to deal with all the possible factors in order to remove these barriers by incorporating the proper laws and legislations.
To design an affordable coverage is like a key reform to the health care system. Health care quality maybe reduced by having a greater control by the medical errors.
The wiser is to invest in the prevention and the healthier lives and to avoid the needs of the high cost medical care systems, and thus making possible the provision of long term safety and long term care
Likewise, Article 12 of the U.N. International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966) reads:
- The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. 2. The steps to be taken by the States Parties to the present Covenant to achieve the full realization of this right shall include those necessary for:
(a) The provision for the reduction of the stillbirth-rate and of infant mortality and for the healthy development of the child; (b) The improvement of all aspects of environmental and industrial hygiene; (c) The prevention, treatment and control of epidemic, endemic, occupational and other diseases; (d) The creation of conditions which would assure to all medical service and medical attention in the event of sickness.
Hospitals are responsible and therefore mandated to provide basic health care facilities to the people belonging to the unaffordable class/ group.
Provision of the continuous medical education and its maintenance shall be best assured by the trained professionals. Within hospitals there should be different training programs in regard of the occupational health and safety administration. Hospitals in low income levels end up giving more care then other hospital setups.
Thus we may say that the right to health is the economic social and cultural right to the highest attainable standards of the health.
Protecting and fulfilling the health, and protecting and promoting the health are inextricably interrelated and almost every country in the world is acting as treaty to at least one of the human rights and also dealing with the human rights to health related and also other conditions related to health.