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Ethiopia issued this proclamation with the objective of providing quality and sustainable universal health care coverage to the beneficiary through pooling of risks and reducing financial barriers at the point of service delivery’. Based on Article 5(1), membership to the health insurance scheme is confined to employees and pensioners. The Proclamation does not expressly exclude foreigners from its ambit. The right to work provision, under article 26(7), of the Refugees Proclamation states that there shall not be any discrimination between refugees and Ethiopian nationals who are engaged in employment. And coupled with article 25 of the Refugee Proclamation, that states refugees have access to available health services, refugees could be entitled to the rights enshrined in the Social Health Insurance Proclamation.