Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2001, published 90th ILC session (2002)

The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its latest report, and particularly the statistics on the numbers of persons affiliated to the various social protection schemes. The Government indicates that the number of active persons affiliated increased by 10.8 per cent between 1997 and 1998 as a result of the dynamism of the economy in recent years. It adds that a trend has been noted among employers and insured persons of seeking to transfer from the IVM RP scheme to the comprehensive protection scheme so that workers can benefit from medical care. In 1998, a total of 117 employers requested such a transfer. The Committee notes this information with interest. It would be grateful if the Government would continue to provide detailed information on the application of the Convention in practice, on the organization and operation of the health insurance system and on the measures taken to ensure that in practice all the workers covered by the Convention are entitled to compulsory sickness insurance benefit. The Committee also requests that the Government provide statistics on the total number of employees in industrial and commercial enterprises, homeworkers and domestic workers, as well as the total number of these employees covered by the sickness insurance scheme.