The Right to Health: An Assessment of Health Sector Governance in the Kurdistan Region – A Case Study of the Garmian Area
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المؤلفين
عنوان الدورية
ردمد الدورية
عنوان المجلد
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مجلة النهرين للعلوم القانونية
خلاصة
The right to health is one of the fundamental human rights. The Iraqi constitution recognized clearly the right to health and emphasized on the commitment of the government to safeguard it by providing high standard healthcare services to everyone. Nowadays poor public healthcare services leading to the violation of the right to health in our society. Despite legal recognition still Kurdistan region government not take care about the quality of healthcare services and governing system require reforms to meet health needs. The objective of the study is to examine the role of the government to protect the right to health and analyzing existing legal framework for health sector governance to identify legal gaps, and other health related challenges, especially in public hospitals in Garmian area. The study combined qualitative and quantitative methods, doctrinal approach used to get qualitative data through library-based sources including books, journal articles, reports etc. Furthermore, quantitative data also collected by distributing list of questions through emailing to the special respondents which include 492 lecturers from the Garmian University to evaluate the situation of the healthcare services in Garmian area as a case study. The results of the study indicates that, the right to health not preserved well in particularly in the study area, lack of essential healthcare services is problematic issue for the patients such as insufficient number of doctors, modern devices, building, medicine etc. Therefore, the study recommends to take stepping stone towards the development of the health right protection for everyone, by enhancing healthcare services including sufficient access to medicine, professional doctors consulting, and modern healthcare infrastructure etc.