NGOs to work together in rehabilitation of disabled
The Ministry of Health’s Agency of Health Examination and Treatment (AHET) and eight domestic and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have signed a memorandum of understanding on rehabilitation activities for the disabled.
Hanoi (VNA) - TheMinistry of Health’s Agency of Health Examination and Treatment (AHET) andeight domestic and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have signed a memorandumof understanding on rehabilitation activities for the disabled.
The NGOs include Vietnam Assistance for the Handicapped (VNAH), FedérationHandicap International (HI), the International Centre (IC), the MedicalCommittee Netherlands-Vietnam (MCNV), the Institute of Population, Health andDevelopment (PHAD), the Action to the Community Development Centre (ACDC), theSustainable Health Development Centre - VietHealth, and the Centre for CreativeInitiatives in Health and Population (CCIHP).
VNAH and AHET signed an agreement to improve the capacity of the rehabilitationsector, with a focus on a project on enforcing the rights to health check-upsand treatment and the rehabilitation of the disabled funded by the US Agencyfor International Development (USAID).
HI will help refine the rehabilitation system and offer personnel training inthe field while CCIHP will work with AHET to enhance medical service qualityfor children living with autism and improve their lives via developing earlyintervention models.
At a seminar held the same day, delegates offered opinions on the revised Lawon Health Check-ups and Treatment, in particular Article 93.
According to the national census on the disabled announced by the GeneralStatistics Office in January 2019, there were some 6.2 million people nationwideaged over two years old living with a disability, or 7.09 percent of thepopulation. Some 13 percent of the population, or nearly 12 million people, areliving with the handicapped.
About 2.3 percent of the disabled were given access to rehabilitation serviceswhen they were first sick or injured./.
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At the signing ceremony (Photo: VNA) 
