Mozambiqueños will no longer be denied access to health because of their way of dressing · global voices in Spanish
End of prohibition of access to health centers for clothing |Photo Citizen Health Observatory (used with permission, November 2021)
Until 2020, little about hospitals rules that prevented the entry of patients due to their clothes in Mozambique.The situation began to change in June 2021, when the Organization of Civil Society Observatory of the Citizen for Health (OCS) published a petition to request basic rights of Mozambiqueños to health.
Until then, people who wore short skirt, simple footwear, sportswear, naked torso or hair with dreadlocks could not enter hospitals..
The OCS defended an investigation that showed that the prohibition of accessing health units for clothing prevailed, which constituted a clear act of violation of human rights - in particular the rights to health - established in the Constitution of the Republic and theInternational Human Rights Protection Instruments, such as the African Charter for Human Rights and Peoples.
According to OCS, in October 2020, the Ministry of Health, through the National Directorate of Medical Assistance, issued a circular that deterred health professionals to prohibit access users of the health unit based on their clothes.
However, just a year later, in October 2021 the measure ceased to be valid in hospitals.Thus, through its Twitter page, the OCS disclosed the impact of the measure, which considers an important conquest, especially em temples of pandemic:
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Dance professor Viva Mugalela greeted the measure on her Facebook page, and said that the decision had been made for a long time:
Nilza Nhamachua said that the way in which hospitals act in Mozambique is the result of what happens every day.That is, from home:
In the same publication there were those who demanded that it go beyond the improvement in the provision of health services of the country, as Mendes Alfazema refers:
The justification for people to access hospitals with a certain clothing does not find any formal or properly written legal basis.Therefore, it is supposed to be a decision of society, based on local customs and practices.
However, of the study mentioned by the Citizen Observatory of Health, it is not possible to extract data or precise numbers of how many people have been affected by the prohibition.Therefore, because it is a recent decision, it is expected to analyze more carefully the results that change will bring in the provision of health services of the Mozambiqueños.
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