UDHR: Group Advocates Health Equality, Justice For All 

The Chief Executive Officer, Save Our Heritage Initiative (SOHI), Ms May Ikokwu, has advocated for health equality and justice for all, especially indigenous people.
Ikokwu made the call recently in an interview with The Tide source in Abuja in commemoration of 2022 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) with the Theme: “Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All”.
She said a third of the world’s population does not have ready access to essential medicines.
“WHO says, unlike in high income countries, in low and middle income nations, 50 to 90 percent of the cost of medicines is paid out of the patient’s own pocket.
“The situation is exacerbated by low rates of health coverage in many places. For example in Latin America, only 35 percent of the population is covered, 10 percent in Asia and less than 8 percent in Africa,” she said.
Ikokwu said that Universal Declaration of Human Rights Day gives  an opportunity to address myriad of inequalities by closing the gaps.
She urged government and relevant stakeholders to step up acceleration of health equality by ensuring that fully functioning Primary Healthcare facilities are located close to local communities where they are most needed and also guarantee justice for all irrespective of tribe or religion.
Ikokwu said the values, and rights enshrined in the Universal Declarations of Human Rights provide guideposts for collective actions that do not leave anyone behind.
According to her, everyone must be protected whether a migrant, a person with disability, poor or out-of-reach indigenous people.
The Tide reports that Human Rights Day is observed annually on December 10.
The   United Nations General Assembly adopted the day, in 1948 as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
The UDHR is a milestone document, which proclaims the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being, regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language.