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The Minister of Health, María Ángeles Palacios, said today in Caravaca de la Cruz that "the rights and duties of users, patients are a priority in all our strategies," in reference to the Health Plan 2010 - 2015, which will soon present his department.
Palacios opened the "First Day of rights and obligations of users of the health system in the Region of Murcia: users as subjects of law ', organized by the Ministry to raise awareness of the law of rights and obligations of users of the health system adopted almost a year ago in May 2009.
The head of the regional Health said the Health Plan is designed with to "influence to improve prevention, awareness among citizens that a healthy lifestyle is the main guarantee that the health system is sustainable, effective and efficient."
In this sense, for Palacios' Rights Act and obligations of users of the health system fits well with the philosophy of the Health Plan as a firm commitment by all to promote the humanization of health care and promote a safety framework legal certainty for both users and patients and all health care professionals in the Region of Murcia. "
The right to health protection has become in recent decades in one of the basic and fundamental rights of the person, "a charge that equates to the interest that society shows for the health problems and the rise of the progress biomedical scientists and applied to the restoration of health, so that health is a core value within the pillars that make up the welfare state, "said the minister.
According to Palacios, "the law of rights and duties is the legal text of reference for Health in the Region of Murcia, which should inspire the actions of the different actors involved in the health field."
The Act is essentially intended to encourage the promotion, preservation and observance of the rights and duties.
Its scope extends to all health facilities, both public and private and its gestation had a wide, involving all sectors related to health.
It also recognizes and promotes the active role to be played by health system users in making decisions, not only in relation to the care process, but also in protecting the health of the community, while the professional conscience health in respect and observance of the rights of users and patients, and promotes actions for the humanization of health care.
The rule recognizes that certain groups deserve special protection or care more particularized, such as elderly, disabled, mentally ill, minors, chronically ill, people with rare diseases, terminals, abused, drug addicts, foreigners, and in general groups risk or social exclusion.
So, is included the right to health care for foreign citizens were not registered and without economic resources, which are in the region and do not have this right recognized under state law.
In the words of the minister, "is not merely a reflection of a society that shows sensitivity to the disadvantaged."
For Palacios, with the media, the Health Plan 2010-2015 and the law of rights and duties, "we must involve the whole society in the protection of health."
Source: CARM
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