Requirement One
diseases and persons with disabilities,
while making sure that the modalities
for obtaining them are easy and convenient.
Recommendations Relating to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard
of Health (the Right to Health)
1) Text of the Recommendation:
Call upon the competent authorities to
step up health care services for persons
with disabilities, follow up on their affairs, give them additional facilities, and
work towards developing radical solutions that guarantee their enjoyment of
the right to health. This can be
achieved, for example, by assigning
specific offices for the persons with disabilities to receive their medications,
exempting them from waiting queues
at hospitals, or by creating a sustainable
and continuous process through which
their medication can be delivered to
their residence.
Summary of public hospitals’
response:
The concerned entity reported that
it has developed an integrated system to manage and monitor medicine stocks with the aim of controlling drug consumption rates, eliminating the phenomenon of wastage
and lack of medicine, and inspecting
drug expiration dates, through conducting an analytical study of patients’ needs of medication and ensuring that it is constantly available.
3) Text of the Recommendation:
Call for establishing a mini-hospital in
reform and rehabilitation centers to be
affiliated with the competent authority
concerned with public hospitals and
primary healthcare centers affairs, for
transferring ailing inmates speedily, especially for urgent cases. In addition,
provide the mini-hospital with specialized medical staff in various fields, including, for example, the rehabilitation
and treatment of drug addicts, internal
diseases, minor surgeries and dental
clinics, in addition to providing a comprehensive pharmacy to avoid shortage
or delay of medicines obtained from
Salmaniya Medical Complex.
Summary of public hospitals'
response:
The concerned entity stated that it
has paid utmost attention to persons with disabilities by providing
an online home delivery service for
their medications through the website and has also provided them
with a special platform at the pharmacy to give them priority in dispensing medicine as part of a package of special services that it seeks
to provide them with.
2) Text of the Recommendation:
Urge the competent authority to develop a monitoring system for drug
stock and consumption rates to avoid
drug shortages or unavailability in various pharmacies and short expiry dates.
In addition to ensuring that the medicines are compatible with the needs of
patients, especially those with chronic
Summary of the Ministry of Interior’s response:
The concerned authority stated
that the provision of health care to
inmates in correction and rehabilitation centers falls under the responsibility of the Ministry of
Health, which is included in the
framework of the health services
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