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Tunis, March 23, 2008 (TunisiaOnline) The 22nd edition of the much
celebrated Tamaghza mountain oasis festival , in the governorate of
Tozeur, was launched on Saturday by a parade, organized at the town's
entrance. The opening of the festival gathered together popular and
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The population's access to health care is governed by the 1998 revision of the terms of setting the categories of beneficiaries of totally free treatment and of reduced rates in public health facilities under the Ministry of Public Health as well as of the terms of granting benefits and the rates to which such treatment is subjected.
Regarding free medical assistance in the health structures of the
Ministry of Public Health, it covers needy families,
which number
160,900, i.e. 7% of the families living below poverty line as well
abandoned children and severely handicapped persons.
Moreover, reduced rates in the health structures of the Ministry of Public Health are granted to citizens who are not affiliated to one of the social security systems, whose situation does not permit such affiliation, and whose annual income does not exceed:
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