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Date: Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:54 PM
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FROM THE WORKING CLASS MONTHLY JOURNAL OF THE CITU - THE STATE OF HEALTH - The WHO, an active wing of the United Nations Organisation, in WHR 2010 estimated that a billion people round the world could not afford any health care services at all and that every year one million people were pushed into extreme poverty after paying huge sum as fees and related charges for medical treatment. While releasing the report, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan declared that WHR 2010 aimed to put more countries on the path to universal health care coverage. She noted: "Access to basic health care is a fundamental human right, as stated in the WHO Constitution, and not just a privilege to be enjoyed in a few wealthy societies." The report says that all countries, rich and poor, could do more in respect of getting universal health care coverage. It wants them to think of ways to increase efficiency, plan new taxes, and take innovative fun-raising steps to improve access to health care. The WHR proposes that member-countries can raise more funds and reduce barriers with a view to boosting income so as to spend on health care. The report points out that 20 percent to 40 percent of the expenditure was wasted through the purchase of unnecessary drugs, hospital-related inefficiency and so on. The recommendation is that the total out-of-pocket payment by patients should not exceed 15 per cent to 20 per cent of the country's total spending on the patients treated.
Ashok Agarwal 4:54pm Feb 6
FROM THE WORKING CLASS MONTHLY JOURNAL OF THE CITU - THE STATE OF HEALTH - The WHO, an active wing of the United Nations Organisation, in WHR 2010 estimated that a billion people round the world could not afford any health care services at all and that every year one million people were pushed into extreme poverty after paying huge sum as fees and related charges for medical treatment. While releasing the report, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan declared that WHR 2010 aimed to put more countries on the path to universal health care coverage.

She noted: "Access to basic health care is a fundamental human right, as stated in the WHO Constitution, and not just a privilege to be enjoyed in a few wealthy societies." The report says that all countries, rich and poor, could do more in respect of getting universal health care coverage. It wants them to think of ways to increase efficiency, plan new taxes, and take innovative fun-raising steps to improve access to health care.

The WHR proposes that member-countries can raise more funds and reduce barriers with a view to boosting income so as to spend on health care. The report points out that 20 percent to 40 percent of the expenditure was wasted through the purchase of unnecessary drugs, hospital-related inefficiency and so on. The recommendation is that the total out-of-pocket payment by patients should not exceed 15 per cent to 20 per cent of the country's total spending on the patients treated.

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