students with disabilities into regular classes with their peers, in order not to
isolate them from their surroundings and society, which is the school and the
regular classroom. In addition to studying and following up cases of mental
retardation, speech disorder, hearing and vision impairment in government
schools, and working to transfer them to institutes or specialized centers. It also
took special measures that commensurate with the classification of the case
according to the type and nature of disability by working to create the
infrastructure for students with disabilities, in a manner that enables him/her to
use the facilities, provide the specialized teacher and the appropriate
educational tools, while providing treatment services to those who need them.
5.3 For the purpose of improving the quality of education for persons with special
disabilities, the government has introduced an allowance for education,
rehabilitation or care for persons with disabilities, in public schools affiliated with
the Ministry of Education, and in rehabilitation centers affiliated with the Ministry
of Social Development, amounting to one hundred dinars for employees in the
group of educational jobs, and fifty dinars for employees in the group of general
jobs, pursuant to Cabinet Resolution No. (16) of 2013.
5.4 Due to the suspension of attendance studies in public and private schools
during the Covid-19 pandemic, and in order to preserve the safety and health of
students, the Ministry of Education has provided a number of advanced remote
services, including: An electronic educational portal service is provided, as this
service provided a model platform that allows teachers Students communicate
and interact with study materials and lectures remotely, through the Ministry of
Education website: www.edunet.bh. The Ministry also presented a virtual
laboratory project, which enables students to conduct various scientific
experiments in a safe virtual environment that touches reality and provides
students with basic skills related to scientific methods.
(6) Right to health (Article 25):
6.1 people who suffer from some diseases that may make them in advanced
stages of the disease among people with disabilities, such as severe sickle cell
anemia (Sickler), multiple sclerosis (MS), and hereditary blood disease
(thalassemia), were not neglected from the services provided by the State,
where the NIHR monitored meetings held by a number of relevant official bodies
such as the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Labor
and Social Development, with representatives of a number of associations
concerned with these diseases in attendance, work was done to facilitate their
access to services provided by the State, by providing medicines and treatment
or issuing their own cards for the purpose of facilitating the procedures for their
access to medical and treatment services in health centers, or parking in spaces
for persons with disabilities, and working to issue their own cards in the name of
the category of people with special needs.
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