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should also engage all the related institutions and different civil society
organizations in enhancing the draft Decree-Law concerning medical and
health protection and safety and issue the same by the end of 2018. ICHR
recommends showing the development budget in the MOH’s budget,
increasing the funds allocated for this item in the MOH’s budget, and reallocating and re-organizing the MOH’s budget through more than one
procedure; such as increasing the expenses of establishment of health
services, development of the health services delivered to the Palestinian
citizens by adopting many measures, including increasing the number
of beds in the hospitals to match the natural increase of the population,
and enhancing the health services delivered in the field of reproductive
health, and motherhood and childhood health. ICHR further recommends
taking serious steps to provide sufficient health services in Gaza Strip by
providing all the required medicines, medical disposables, lab supplies,
and blood banks and fixing the broken or over-used medical equipment,
or replace them with new devices, increase Gaza’s share in the medical
services acquired from outside the formal health institutions, fix the
considerable structural deficiency of the MOH’s personnel by increasing
the professional technical cadres and reducing the number of administrative
staff, and reduce the impact of the fuel and electricity shortage crisis on the
right to health.
2.2.3 The Right to Education
Palestine enacted the Decree-Law No. 8 of 2017, concerning Public
Education, and the Decree-Law No, 5 of 2017 amending the Decree-Law
No. 5 of 2013 concerning the Loan Fund for Undergraduate in Palestine.
The budget of the Ministry of Education & Higher Education (MOHE)
for 2017 constituted approximately one fifth of the State’s general budget,
however, it is observed that the budgets earmarked for each program are
low and insufficient to achieve its goals, causing the dire conditions of the
education process, in terms of the development of its physical and human
resources infrastructure. On the other hand, the poor financial resources of
the universities, and government inability to provide the financial support
required to handle the accumulated deficit in the budgets of universities,
directly impact the principle of access with its economic dimension.
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