Opinions on the first National Report of Korea on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities the country. ③ The government should develop educational programs for parents in order to prevent the abuse and repeated abuse of children with disabilities, and devise public education campaigns and systems to rectify the social perception that the disabilities of children is one of the factors to cause child abuse. 13. Article 25. Health 13.1 Medical care for persons with disabilities 1) Current status and problems ① Many medical institutions, including local clinics and hospitals located in local communities, do not have appropriate accessible facilities for persons with disabilities (lifts, designated parking spaces and toilets for persons with disabilities), and therefore persons with severe disabilities often take the trouble to visit medical institutions equipped with such facilities but located at far distances though what they need is simple diagnoses or prescriptions. ② According to the result of the 2013 Survey on the Status of Accessible Facilities for Persons with Disabilities conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, only 60.5% of medical clinics, dental clinics, and oriental medical clinics which are classified as community facilities have such accessible facilities, and the installation rate at medical institutions such as general hospitals, hospitals, dental hospitals, oriental medical hospitals, mental hospitals and recuperation hospitals was 66.1%, which revealed insufficient physical accessibility to medical institutions. NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA 31

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