22. F
or the purpose of improving the quality of education for people with disabilities, the government
introduced an allowance for education or rehabilitation or care of persons with disabilities in
the Ministry of Education public schools and the rehabilitation centers of the Ministry of Social
Development. This allowance is one hundred dinars for the staff in educational functions group,
and fifty dinars for employees in the public service group and that is under the Council of Ministers
Resolution No. (16) for the year 2013.
23. I n this regard, also, the Ministry of Labour and Social Development launched a quality initiative
represented in making a computer system especially for the blind, which is endowed with a speaking
program called “vision/Bassar”, thus enabling this category to use computer programs and read
Arabic and English web pages in an easy and clear manner. It also helps them to differentiate
scanned documents and read e-mails, and take advantage of modern technology, and develop their
ability to communicate and improve their integration in public and working life.
24. D
uring the NIHR follow-up on the realities of this category of persons with disabilities or those
who suffer from medical conditions placing them in the category of persons with disabilities, the
NIHR spotted the opening and operation of a therapeutic medical center for blood and genetic
diseases as a prominent leading center in the Arab Gulf region. The center was provided with the
highest professional and technical levels, and it included a section for accidents and emergencies
and another for functional diagnostics. It also noted through the local newspapers that the Ministry
of Health will establish a medical complex in Muharraq Governorate in early 2017, which will
include a center for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). In this regard, the NIHR appreciates these
efforts because of their significant role in ensuring that this category enjoy their rights especially in
the field of health care and treatment.
25. H
owever, the NIHR monitored the lack of implementation of Law No. (59) for the year 2014 amended
by Article (5) of Law No. (74) for the year 2006 on the care and rehabilitation and employment of
the disabled, which added two new paragraphs, given that the first paragraph stipulated that: “ the
employee or worker with disabilities or those caring for first degree disabled relatives, who have
a certificate issued by the competent medical committee regarding their need for special care, may
have two paid free hours a day, in accordance with the conditions and regulations established by a
decision of the minister”, and the second paragraph states: “ those two hours under this Act and
hours cannot be added to feeding hours or rest hours stipulated in other laws and decisions”.
26. T
he Ministry of Health justified not implementing the provisions of this law in a news item
published in local newspapers, that taking those two hours requires for that category to obtain
a certificate issued by the competent medical committee in accordance with the conditions and
criteria, indicating that those conditions and criteria have not yet been set by the concerned party,
represented by the Ministry of Labour and Social Development, which sets the conditions that
determine the controls and the mechanism of the law.
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