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Sierra Leone by Riccardo Venturi on Internazionale |
The right to health care represents one of the basic rights and it acknowledges human dignity. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, in fact, proclaimed that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself and one’s family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care.” The aim of the welfare is to warrant basic rights to all citizens, so they can benefit from them and defend the weak and the outcasts. Yet in Sierra Leone the right to health care is either a luxury just for those who can pay expensive private clinics or a privilege for those assisted by humanitarian organizations.
The reportage, shot by Riccardo Venturi in collaboration with Emergency, has been published on Internazionale.
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