• Director(s):

    DONAUER (Rebecca)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2011

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

Rwanda, one of the poorest countries in the wold, supplies a greater percentage of social welfare to its citizens than some of the world's richest countries. It has had a health insurance system in place for eleven years, and 92% of the population are covered. Annual contributions cost 2 dollars.

For this price, health cover provides the basic care to treat the main causes of fatal illness: diarrhea, pneumonia, malnutrition, and infected wounds. The health centres in general possess the basic drugs recommended by the World Health Organisation, and also have laboratories that can carry out the most common blood and urine tests, as well as tests for tuberculosis and malaria.