Werner H. Kramarsky, who as a public official helped expand the delivery of health care in New York City and the scope of human rights protections statewide, and who in private life was a patron of artists and a prodigious collector of drawings, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93 .

H is son Daniel said the cause was pneumonia.

Mr. Kramarsky played a prominent role in two very different domains: the helter-skelter world of state and local politics and the more rarefied sphere of collecting and promoting fine art.

As a special assistant to Mayor John V. Lindsay from 1966 to 1970, Mr. Kramarsky made improving medical care his top priority. He played a key role in consolidating a hodgepodge of municipal agencies and institutions into the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation (now known as NYC Health + Hospitals).

As commissioner of the State Division of Human Rights under Gov. Hugh L. Carey from 1975 through 1982, Mr. Kramarsky ruled that a minimum height requirement for male prison guards was discriminatory; that the New York City Marathon must allow competitors in wheelchairs to participate; that tennis clubs could not offer discounts for married couples; and that job applicants could not be denied work simply for being obese or drug users in treatment.