Article 5 Measures to Safeguard Various Rights
indigenous and outlying island regions after the end of their service period.
However, the retention rate dropped to about 65% in 2018 and 2019. Such a
trend needs to be taken seriously to ensure the retention of trained medical
personnel in indigenous areas.137
108. In indigenous rural regions, it is difficult to meet the standards for home-
based, community-based, and institutional long-term care facilities stipulated
in the Standards for the Establishment of Long-term Care Institutions 138
due to land use control policies and the requirements of the Building Act
and its related regulations, as well as regulations concerning accessibility
and the special needs of long-term care service users.139 For example, most
indigenous lands are forest lands, farming and grazing lands, protected
areas, or lands reserved for indigenous peoples. There is only a little land
left that can be rezoned for buildings. Moreover, most of the extant buildings
have been built without construction permits, and construction permit
applications require a fee. Overall, the financial situation and regulatory
restrictions remain obstacles.140
109. For §§105-108, the NHRC recommends:
(1) The NHRC believes that the government’s current health and welfare
policies for indigenous peoples are driven by the health system, which
lacks input from indigenous peoples and fails to consider their cultural
uniqueness. Therefore, the government has failed to provide appropriate
or culturally sound health and welfare services for different ethnicities
137
138
139
Control Yuan investigation report approved on July 15, 2020 (110 教調 0012)
Articles 10-12 of the Standards for the Establishment of Long-term Care Institutions .
The Regulations on the Development and Management of Lands Reserved for Indigenous Peoples , the Spatial Planning
Act , and the Regional Plan Act .
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CitiOrange (2016, Mar 31). Who is being taken care of by long-term care? Strict rules for setting up day care centers in the
countryside force the elderly to leave their hometowns once they become “disabled” . Retrieved from buzzorange.com.
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