G. whereas there is ample documentation indicating that Romani women are particularly excluded from health care and often only have access to health care in the case of an extreme emergency and/or childbirth,

G. whereas there is ample documentation indicating that Romani women are particularly excluded from health care and often only have access to health care in the case of an extreme emergency and/or childbirth,

There is documentation suggesting that Romani women often only have access to health care in the case of an extreme emergency, and sometimes not even in that case.

So again, to use your words, a very modest investment in home care leveraged a tremendous advantage in terms of the cost of institutionalizing someone and, of course, in terms of related visits to the hospital and emergency wards, because they didn't want to have somebody helping them at home.

increasing the efficiency of programmes to boost employment, with an emphasis on lifelong learning and on combating all forms of discrimination in all socio-economic sectors; finalising implementation of the reform of health services by eliminating discrepancies in territorial coverage and quality of medical services, modernising equipment in hospitals and clinics, improving collection mechanisms and redistribution of collected funds, strengthening the management, monitoring and evaluation of all the different types of care; intensifying measures to eliminate non-attendance in compulsory education, improve the adaptability of vocational and technical education to labour market demands and promote lifelong learning; covering the need for emer ...[+++]gency and social housing and improving housing conditions in specific areas or for specific social categories; implementing the new national system of social assistance and social services, gradually improving the guaranteed minimum income, the support granted to families with children and the public pension system to ensure the elimination of severe poverty; finalising implementation of the Government strategy for the improvement of the Roma situation and in particular eliminating cases of people with no ID papers, supporting training and employment, education, health care, housing and infrastructure development programmes which promote the social inclusion of the Roma community and continue to fight against discrimination.

5. The Community and its Member States consider that freedom from hunger and absolute poverty as well as the right to adequate shelter, education and health care are areas which need to be addressed with added urgency.