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European Network for the right to health

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Created 06/26/2007 - 19:38

FINAL DOCUMENT OF THE EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR THE RIGHT TO HEALTH

A year after Florence, the European Network for the right to health strongly emphasises again the need for the movement to consider health care as a social right, universal and not commercial.
In Paris we have transformed a charter of intents, like the one set out at the European Forum of Salonicco, into a platform for the right against the privatisation and the destruction of the national public Health care System.

We demand that access to the services is free, that it meets the needs of health care of the population, and that is not linked to any form of corporate profit.
We ask that the Health care Service is adequately financed in order to grant to everyone, without discrimination: the promotion of health, the welfare, the respect for the issues of gender, the protection at work and in life, the cures, the attention to the psychiatric problems, the rehabilitation of those affected from any kind of infirmity, the humanisation of the process of care and the respect of the individuals at any time between health care sy