Executive Summary 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. The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) 39

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