29/09/2011 Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Strasbourg, 29.09.2011 - "Children should have the right of access to health care of the highest quality, as well as the right to protection and to participation in decisions concerning them," today said Bernard Marquet (Monaco, ALDE) in Lisbon, where he is representing PACE at the 9th Council of Europe Conference of Health Ministers, on the theme of "Child-Friendly Health Care: Building a Healthy Future for and with Children".
Mr Marquet emphasised the importance of maintaining and developing enduring health systems available to all on an equitable basis, and of gearing these systems more specifically to the particular needs of all children, including those in vulnerable situations.