The State recognizes the right of every citizen to protection of health and to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standards of physical and mental health and with a view to ensuring the effective exercise of this right, the State undertakes:

• To take steps to provide for free primary health care in state institutions for all its citizens;
• To take appropriate measures to prevent, treat and control epidemic, endemic and other diseases;
• To take steps to reduce infant mortality and promote the healthy development of the child;
• To promote individual responsibility in health matters;
• To allow, subject to such supervision and conditions as are necessary in a democratic society, for the establishment of private medical services.

Article 29, Constitution of the Republic of Seychelles, p.30, 1994