Medical services must be accessible and affordable everywhere, without exception, especially for people with disabilities and their families.

It is important to create national and international cooperation among different stakeholders such as state bodies, international organizations, businesses, NGOs, and others to solve global health inequities and establish opportunities for all people.

The Global Vote says that health is a priority and the right to health must work on a practical basis for all people without exception. A child with any kind of disability must be able to receive medical diagnosis, treatment, and services included in a state’s health program.

Let’s say a child or other person with a disability who uses a wheelchair has painful teeth. In good conditions, medical institutions would have accessible buildings, bus stops, medical equipment like special chairs, and educated staff who know how to work with people with physical and mental disabilities to communicate with this person and meet their needs.

But in bad conditions, people with mental and physical disabilities have weaker access to medical services, which of course has negative consequences, such as disease and recrudescence.

When people receive insufficient medical services, it is not only bad for that family, but for the community, region, and state, too.

Equality for all — without exception — and the satisfaction of basic health and social needs are fundamental principles of human rights.It is no secret that health is the foundation of human life. In the Kyrgyz Republic, we have a saying:　“If you have health, you have everything.” This is a common view in many countries, but without good and strategic health policy with high quality medical services, it is difficult to do.

That is why I give my vote!

ARDI conference on disability rights. Kyrgyzstan. Image Credit: Seinep Dyikanbaeva. All rights reserved.

Your voice is important in the right to health movement because health is the foundation of human life and we must invest and act for health for all people all over the world. The current world population is over seven billion people and always growing. Therefore, every person — especially those who can use the Internet — should make the right to health a priority. I think it’s an indisputable issue that all people want to have health, but only by voting can each of us make the right to health a real part of human life.

Participate in the 2015 Global Vote today: join25.org/vote

This article is written by Seinep Dyikanbaeva, a right to health advocate from Kyrgyzstan. Edited by Sarah Jean Horwitz.

Source: https://medium.com/voices-of-a-movement/if-you-have-health-you-have-everything-ea3deb4efeb6

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