Press Release
Hizb ut Tahrir Releases the Khilafah Health Policy
The Khilafah will Ensure Health is a Right for All Citizens

Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Pakistan has issued a Publicized Policy Position (PPP) regarding ensuring health is a right and not a luxury, for all citizens of the soon to arrive Khilafah "Caliphate", regardless of religion, school of thought, gender or race.

The state of Pakistan's health care is appalling with widespread, preventable life-threatening disease, inadequate patient health education, poor unaudited treatment protocols that are not based on medical evidence, lack of an integrated health system with primary, secondary and tertiary facilities, poor local clinical training and the absence of strong, original medical research strongly linked to local disease and health requirements. Currently, the private sector accounts for approximately 80% of all outpatient visits. Domination by the private sector has converted health care from a service into a business and health care into a luxury, not a right. Increasing costs of private doctors' fees, medicines and diagnostic tests have made affordable treatment difficult for most people in Pakistan.

This awful state of affairs reflects attributes of the model for Pakistan's current rulers, the foremost exponent of Democracy, the US. In the US too, Democracy has converted patients into customers and health into a luxury. Democracy has privatized health care and drug research to benefit a small elite, who now profiteer from the misery of millions. By privatization, both medical drugs and medical care is now unaffordable for most of the world and even for many within the Western world.

This pitiful situation in the world is a far cry from the time of the Khilafah "Caliphate", where the state supported a strong predominately public health sector, in accordance with the commands of RasulAllah (saw). Medical care is a right of the citizens upon the Khilafah "Caliphate" state regardless of race, school of thought or gender. Health and medical care are from the obligations of the State such that they must be readily available for the citizens, from the angle of clinics and hospitals, and public utilities used for treatment by the Muslims.

The Khilafah "Caliphate" will provide free health care for all, but it will not prevent the use of private medical care or the sale of medicine.

And to fund this explosion in health care, the Khilafah "Caliphate" will restructure revenue generation according to the Shariah rules to accelerate educational progress. It will generate huge revenues from public properties such as energy and state enterprises such as large scale construction and manufacture of machinery. It will establish Kharaaj on agriculture and end the oppressive income and sales tax that has strangled economic activity.

Note: To see the complete policy and relevant articles of the constitution for the Khilafah "Caliphate" State, please go to this web link.

http://htmediapak.page.tl/policy-matters.htm

The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah of Pakistan