Manifesto to demand universal health coverage under the new law being prepared by the government On World Health Day, more than 300 organisations and groups gathered outside the Ministry of Health to deliver a manifesto signed by more than 300 social organisations, scientific societies, groups and almost 1400 health professionals. Our manifesto called on the government to end the health exclusion in the new National Health Service Equity and Universal Access Act, whose draft bill was close to being approved by the Council of Ministers. The text, however, was a long way from taking us back to the pre-2012 situation and still had gaps and shortcomings that took us further away from Universal Healthcare.
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We assessed the draft bill on Universal Health Care REDER, a group of organisations of which Salud por Derecho is a member, welcomed the Draft Bill approved today by the Council of Ministers aimed at consolidating the equity, universality and cohesion of Spain's National Health Service (SNS). Although there were some pending issues, the text was a good basis from which to work together with the government department and the parliamentary groups to introduce the nuances that social organisations consider necessary to guarantee a truly universal system.
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We tabled amendments to the new government bill to achieve true universal access to healthThe new National Health Service Equity and Universal Access Act was an improvement on the previous law, but it did not provide protection to ensure that nobody in Spain would ever again suffer from health exclusion. For this reason, REDER drafted amendments to the bill and presented them to the different parliamentary groups so that Congress could include them in the final text.
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WE ARE A NON-PROFIT FOUNDATION THAT DEFENDS HUMAN RIGHTS SO THAT ALL PEOPLE, WHEREVER THEY LIVE, CAN EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO HEALTH.