Lebanon is a party to a number of International Human Rights Conventions that include provisions on the right to health 3 , including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 4 , which requires state parties to achieve “the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.” Under the Covenant, state parties must ensure “the creation of conditions which would assure to all, medical service and medical attention in the event of sickness.” Syrian refugees receive healthcare services from a range of public and private healthcare facilities across the country. In order to facilitate Syrian refugees’ access to healthcare in Lebanon, 1. The NRC ICLA programme, through which the information for this paper was collected, is funded by ECHO, DFID, SEM, KfW, OCHA and the Norwegian MFA. 2. ICLA teams contacted 22 PHCs and 7 hospitals in South Lebanon, 10 PHCs and 1 hospital in Beirut-Mount Lebanon, 33 PHCs and 5 hospitals in North Lebanon and 16 PHCs and 6 hospitals in the Bekaa. Seven governmental hospitals receiving COVID-19 cases were also included in this mapping exercise. 3. Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child of 20 November 1989, ratified on 14 May 1991; Article 5 on the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination of 7 March 1966, ratified on 12 November 1971, Articles 12 and 14 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women of 17 December 1979, ratified on 16 April 1997. 4. Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 6 December 1966, ratified on November 1972. Documentation and access to healthcare for refugees in Lebanon Background www.nrc.no Photo: Sam Tarling/NRC Briefing note May 2020 This paper aims to provide an overview of documentation requirements at health facilities in Lebanon for Syrian and Palestinian refugees. During the COVID-19 outbreak in particular, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) monitors the potential impact of such requirements on access to healthcare and the support that legal actors can provide in this context. The analysis is based primarily on information collected by NRC’s Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) 1 teams from health providers and members of the refugee community. For this exercise, NRC contacted 130 refugee households with persons with disabilities and a total of 81 Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCs) and 26 hospitals 2 in South Lebanon, Beirut-Mount Lebanon, Bekaa and North Lebanon. 1
Documentation and access to healthcare for refugees in Lebanon
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