healthcare treaty:
1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and facilities for medical care and rehabilitation. States Parties shall strive to ensure that no child is deprived of his right of access to such health care services.
1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and facilities for medical care and rehabilitation. States Parties shall strive to ensure that no child is deprived of his right of access to such health care services.
2. States Parties shall pursue full implementation of this right and take appropriate measures in particular: a) to reduce infant and child mortality;
b) to ensure the provision of necessary medical assistance and health care to all children with emphasis on the development of primary health care;
c) to combat disease and malnutrition, including within the framework of primary health care, through, among other things, the application of readily available technology and through the provision of adequate nutritious foods and clean drinking water, the dangers and risks pollution taking into account;
d) To ensure appropriate pre- and post-natal health care for mothers;
e) to ensure that all segments of society, in particular, parents and children, are informed and supported in the use of knowledge of the health and nutrition of children, the advantages of breastfeeding, hygiene and environmental sanitation and the prevention accidents;
f) To develop preventive health care, guidance for parents, and facilities and family planning education.
3. States Parties shall take all effective and appropriate measures to traditional practices that are harmful to abolish the health of children.
4. States Parties undertake international cooperation and encouraging to achieve progressively the full realization of the rights recognized in this article. In this respect shall, in particular, take into account the needs of developing countries.
explanation
The child is entitled to the best possible health and medical facilities. It is not only the right to physical health but also to psychological help. The government will ensure that no child is denied access to these services. Extra attention is given to the reduction of infant and child mortality, primary health care, adequate food and clean drinking water, care for mothers before and after childbirth and for information on health, nutrition, breastfeeding and hygiene. The government ensures that traditional habits that are harmful to the health of children be abolished.
Because parents or guardians are responsible for children, they decide what is good for their health. Thereby is only one central thing: the importance of the child! From twelve years, children have the right to participate in decisions about their medical treatment. That can be tough. For example, a fifteen-year-old pregnant girl who wants an abortion or for a terminally ill child of thirteen who intends to stop the severe life-sustaining treatment.
In the Netherlands, running water, there are toilets and sewers and babies are vaccinated to protect them against childhood diseases. Since the government must ensure that children have basic health care that not many countries in the world. According to figures from UNICEF, die every year six million children from diseases that are preventable by example, good hygiene, and vaccinations. Richer countries like the Netherlands should, according to the UN Convention to contribute to health care in countries where children needlessly die or become ill.
Female circumcision
Female circumcision is a tradition that still exists. Even in the Netherlands. In Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Somalia are circumcised, many girls. Circumcision usually occurs in young girls. Ages vary by country, but it happens at least for the first period. Circumcision is a painful and traumatic experience for the girls. They are held and usually without anesthesia, a portion of their genitals with a knife cut away. After circumcision girls can hardly urinate, there is a risk of infection, and there are even girls who die from circumcision. According to the CRC, governments must do everything to stop this harmful tradition.
'Illegal' children
In the Netherlands (and also in other countries) have kids who are illegal not have the same health care as on illegal 'children. Special rules apply because they have no health insurance. Officially, they are entitled to the same healthcare. But through all the complicated rules that hardly anyone knows, it is often not possible to get good care. According to the UN CRC, ALL children have a right to good health and health care!
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