Women are not entitled to health care. When will the world come out of a coma?

Unfortunately, even today, women continue to suffer in many societies. To date, women have not been able to exercise all their rights. Women in Lebanon may be better off than other countries, but it is undeniable that Lebanese women continue to suffer inequalities in 2019, and laws still do not protect them, particularly with regard to women. Domestic violence, early marriage of minors, with serious consequences, including the disruption of the education of girls. And the increased risk of marital rape, exploitation and health problems. Nevertheless, Keter Kheirallah said that Lebanese women can still obtain their most basic rights, such as the right to medical treatment, unlike women in India.

Women in some countries of the world, like India, suffer from unacceptable inequalities! Listen: Indian women are not entitled to health care simply because they are women!

A new study published on Thursday, August 8, 2019 on the BMJ's website confirmed that women in India face "discrimination against women" in accessing health care, the 39, one of the most basic human rights. The most affected people in India are girls and young women under 30, women over 60 and even women far from the hospital.

According to a study of 2.4 million patient records in one of the largest public hospitals in India, hundreds of thousands of women have not been able to access health care of which they needed. The researchers also found that two-thirds of hospital appointments in 2016 were men and that 400,000 women were left unattended.

As a result, researchers calculated the number of women "who did not receive health care" by observing the difference between the number of women who visited the hospital and the expected number. Young women under 30 or over 60 were more likely to lose necessary health care. Women living far from the hospital are also very affected.

Professor Roy, of the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, said that this distinction clearly reflected the discrimination suffered by women in India. India ranks 108 out of 149 countries according to the gender gap index of the World Economic Forum.

But bad discrimination in health care transcends Indian borders and extends to China, South Korea and other countries. Sex discrimination in health care is therefore a very important phenomenon that needs to be resolved quickly by the countries concerned.