The importance of these centers comes through the reduction of disability
complications in the present and future. However, the number of served
persons with disabilities is small, compared to their total number, due to the
limited number of specialized medical centers, which makes citizens living
in distant places find it difficult to access these services and benefit from
them, as some violations against persons suffering from the lack of adequate
health care were monitored, and the same thing said about the research
programs to reach children where they are developmentally retarded weak,
delaying the process of early intervention. And health diagnostic centers
referred to above suffer from the weakness of some diagnostic services. The
health insurance is important to follow up the habilitation of persons with
disabilities in health terms, as the Ministry of Health provides health
insurance service for this category of society.
In This connection, the following observations were recorded:
1. The private sector refrains from accepting the insurance of persons
with disability, which constitutes discrimination against them in
accessing the appropriate health care similar to their peers of
beneficiaries.
2. One of the most important obstacles in this area is the lack of
specialized medical staff, as failure of health habilitation was
monitored due to the lack of physical therapists.
3. There is ignorance of the rights of persons with disabilities by the
medical staff in general.
4. Lack or inadequate early diagnostic centers and the possibility of early
follow-up from the outset, which leads to the occurrence of incurable
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