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Salema is calling the officials to protect her against hunger
Salma Hussein Hamden is the widow of late / Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hamden - Arab EL Sohba - Dar El-Salam/ Sohag, sent to the land center her repeated evocations headlined "the sky became my cover, ground is my bed, land narrowed, all reasons are cut, for me poverty and deprivation are one"
Salema adds: "Where do I go? And to whom should I send my evocations? Injustice increased because both hunger and need increased.
Salema’s story summarized to the fact that her late husband was a temporary worker with the Railway Engineering, Alexandria. On 15/2/1971 at 9.30 in the 162 kilometer Hemdan’s leg was amputated in a train accident, which was police recorded with number 13 of 1971 Police Department EL Dabaa, Hamdan life deteriorated after his reputation of being one of the best young men in his village. He got hepatitis, tuberculosis, and became helpless until he died.
The thing that causes the listener to cry is that the Social Insurance Authority has disbursed a sum of six pounds per month since 1996 for Salema’s husband, and the railway authority decided to give him a sum of 4394 pounds as compensation for his injury, but his death was faster and Hamdan's wife and his family were not able to cash compensation, and she applied for the disbursement of social security pension, which is about 80 pounds a month and Salema says that this amount is not enough to feed her family, which is consisting of five members how can this amount provide food, drink, education and health care?
Salema continues: My daughter gets the flu on a permanent basis and I'm afraid that this new epidemic is spreading to infect her despite the fact that our village has no pigs, but how can I pay for vaccine if we can not afford bread?
Salema crying to the officials to help her cash the compensation for her husband injury and his pension so she can feed her family guarantee their rights to have food.
Ironically Salema wonders in her vocation: If my liver is infected and my brother has kidney failure, how will the government treat us of swine flu?
And the Land Center asserts that the Egyptian government must stop violations of the Egyptians rights in health care, after more than half of the Egyptian people now are suffering from chronic diseases. And the government department don’t take the necessary measures to ensure their treatment. At the same time, the government should take measures of economic and social support and support small-scale producers and those with limited income. And to ensure the human rights of citizens in the countryside, especially after the deterioration of income and collapse by the economic crisis and a policy of liberalization of markets and trade.
The Land Center is presenting the mentioned lady complaint, demanding the officials to quick payment of the late husband compensation and pension, in additional to raising the value of her pension, and help employing one of her sons in the Government vacancies in Sohag governorate.
The LCHR also demanding members of both People's Assembly and Shura Council to adopt bills of economic and social alternative projects to ensure people’s rights of life, decent income and security.
Also demanding of civil society institutions in Sohag governorate to ensure, support and maintain a safe and decent life for Salema and her children, and ensure their right of enough food. And lead campaigns to support the rights of citizens in the Egyptian countryside to ensure their right to adequate food, decent jobs and decent life.
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