Accessible equipment, pregnant women’s health handbooks, and health
education course materials for pregnant women/puerperal women provided by
medical institutions fail to meet the needs of persons with different disabilities.
No accessible or easy-to-read teaching materials, teaching aids, or courses have
been designed for persons with disabilities, a fact which highlights the
government’s disregard for the CRPD’s stipulations that persons with disabilities
shall have the same marital and family rights that nondisabled people do.
117. According to the CRPD Second Report, preventive healthcare services are
currently offered to both the general public and persons with disabilities.
However, the 2016 Disabled People’s Living Condition and Demand Survey
released by the MOHW showed that only 43.3% of persons with disabilities had
received health check-ups, whereas 60.2% of the general public (aged 40 years
or under) had received health check-ups. Accordingly, the MOHW adopted
measures such as diversifying promotional channels, incorporating sign language
in promotional videos for persons with hearing impairment, and encouraging city
and county health bureaus to collaborate with basic medical care institutions to
provide community-based integrated screening services to make it easier for
persons with disabilities to receive health screenings. The NHRC maintains that
except for the incorporating of sign language in promotional videos, none of the
other measures to help persons with disabilities are in place. Additionally, the
MOHW has ignored the fact that most basic medical institutions currently lack
accessible environments and facilities. Thus, the NHRC recommends that the
MOHW actively improve accessibility and offer more diversified services (e.g.,
set up outpatient clinics for persons with disabilities and schedule visits to
institutions for persons with disabilities to provide medical or preventive
healthcare services).
118. According to statistics compiled by the Taiwan Insurance Institute (hereinafter
referred to as the TII) in recent years, persons with disabilities only account for
1.1% of all insured persons. A Control Yuan investigation report102 revealed that
as of the end of 2019, there were only 202,004 valid life insurance contracts among
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The Control Yuan investigation report approved on October 20, 2020.
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