(a) Free medical care in State health institutions

Medical institutions collect a patient fee, which is a direct payment for medical services that is collected by the medical institution in the context of minimal health care services for patients.

Medical care for pregnant women and newborns is provided by primary medical and health care institutions, hospitals, and special medical and other health care institutions (article 61 of the law).

Short term social security also covers free medical care in State medical institutions.

The country's primary health care policies have led to a reduction in the number of facilities with medical nurses and midwives, and the number of permanent medical treatment facilities has increased at the same time.

Health care resources in Latvia Health care services in Latvia in 2001 were available at 140 hospitals, 2,083 outpatient treatment institutions and 303 facilities with medical nurses and midwives.

Non hospital births 16.6 per cent.

The Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan stipulates the right of Republic of Kazakhstan citizens to protect their health and to receive the free, guaranteed amount of medical care established by law and paid medical care in State and private treatment facilities, as well as with individuals with a private medical practice.

Medical services were reported to have initially refused to assist them.

Usually, Chinese institutions enter into agreements with foreign Governments or directly with medical institutions.

Provided that it is necessary to prove the death of the party involved is normal or is abnormal after the treatment of medical and health organization, the Medical Certificate of Death shall be issued by the medical and health organization.

Equipment for treatment and diagnostics, reagents, and consumable supplies were all bought to upgrade the technical facilities of the medical institutions providing this type of service.

Operating in the Republic to provide medical care to women are 442 hospitals, 1,025 outpatient polyclinics, 13 maternity homes and 631 women's counselling centres, children's polyclinics, outpatient facilities and other treatment facilities that have women's counselling centres.

The tertiary health care level provides highly specialised medical services that are provided in specialised treatment centres or institutions by qualified specialists from one or more sectors of medicine.

The development policy for the health sector to the year 2010 established priorities in the field of reproductive health and safe motherhood, in particular.

Table 10 Progress towards hospital birth targets, 2000 2002

Only 0.3 of abortions are performed outside treatment facilities, and they are regarded as criminal.

This could be tackled in various ways, including tax holidays for investments in health care and liberalization of investment in hospital and medical institutions, including financing by banks and financial institutions.

All localities should take medical institutions which have illegal medical advertising, complaints focusing on the past and have repeatedly been punished as a focus of inspection.

In recent years the tendency is to encourage citizens to choose freely their doctors and dentists within a given medical establishment.

Australia noted that medical treatment of persons held in custody was provided by nursing facilities.

The Many Crises of Health Care

(f) Develop and make more accessible to female victims various forms of emergency services, staff and facilities, including both medical and para medical, and police agencies and institutions Argentina

Victims apos aid associations might act as intermediaries between the health services and victims for psychological or psychiatric treatment.

Under Indonesian law, abortion conducted outside recognized medical facilities is illegal.

A network of medical institutions, ranging from district polyclinics to clinics in scientific research institutes, has been put into operation to provide medical assistance to those affected.

We partnered with a leading medical research institution here in Boston.

In some cases, this is because the deaths occur at home and are not reported.

In addition, hospital care is provided to pregnant women by 34 maternity centres, 11 perinatal centres, and 156 maternity departments in central rayon hospitals.

There is a possibility of merging private practices and non public institutions into the public system, on the basis of a contract with an appropriate state organ or local self government.

The distribution of health care facilities remains inadequate in Latvia, because there are districts and parishes in which there is a lack of medical personnel even with a secondary medical education.

In 2001 434 children were transferred from medical institutions to care institution, including 330 children to social care institutions for orphans.

Health care centres, hospitals and related establishments are under municipal administration and financed from municipal budgets.

All these services are only available at government medical institutions manned by government medical personnel.

In all medical facilities at the rayon, oblast, and Republic levels, rural women are given free contraceptives and free medical services.

There were fewer drug related and psychiatric patients than in 1999, which meant that a greater share of patients were treated in general daytime in patient facilities, hospitals and out patient treatment institutions.

An additional 25 health promotion centres were created at treatment and prevention organizations.

Improvements in the physical protection system of high activity sealed radioactive sources in five Lithuanian personal health care institutions of an oncological profile have been made.

(c) Direct contacts with private individuals, representatives of non governmental organizations, private institutions, hospitals and medical centres and the media

To provide medical care to women, the Republic has the following midwife stations (1,420), paramedical stations (2,720), family outpatient clinics (1,570), women's clinics (79), and clinicodiagnostic polyclinics (44), as well as 9 Marriage and Family departments and 13 medical genetics offices, 717 obstetrics gynaecology offices, and 524 patient examination rooms.

Belarus continues to take steps to improve medical assistance to the population, provide public health units with modern equipment and medicinal preparations and assign qualified medical staff to the affected areas.

In this connection, a system for international accreditation of medical personnel and health institutions was judged important.

Medical Services Victims who do not reside in the shelter are given basic necessities and medical care in the framework of the facilities of the Immigration Administration.

Also, the share of health care services in private institutions is borne directly by patients.

Special zones, 1999 2002