RECOMMENDATION
Strengthen its efforts to ensure that children with disabilities have access to health care, including early detection and intervention programmes;
| Recommendation No: | CRC-55(d) |
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| Recommendation Year: | 2016 |
| Recommendation Text: | Strengthen its efforts to ensure that children with disabilities have access to health care, including early detection and intervention programmes; |
| Convention/Treaty Body: | Convention on the Rights of the Child |
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Related Human Rights Articles
CRC Article 23 - 1. States Parties recognize that a mentally or physically disabled child should enjoy a full and decent life, in conditions which ensure dignity, promote self-reliance and facilitate the child's active participation in the community.
2. States Parties recognize the right of the disabled child to special care and shall encourage and ensure the extension, subject to available resources, to the eligible child and those responsible for his or her care, of assistance for which application is made and which is appropriate to the child's condition and to the circumstances of the parents or others caring for the child.
3. Recognizing the special needs of a disabled child, assistance extended in accordance with paragraph 2 of the present article shall be provided free of charge, whenever possible, taking into account the financial resources of the parents or others caring for the child, and shall be designed to ensure that the disabled child has effective access to and receives education, training, health care services, rehabilitation services, preparation for employment and recreation opportunities in a manner conducive to the child's achieving the fullest possible social integration and individual development, including his or her cultural and spiritual development
4. States Parties shall promote, in the spirit of international cooperation, the exchange of appropriate information in the field of preventive health care and of medical, psychological and functional treatment of disabled children, including dissemination of and access to information concerning methods of rehabilitation, education and vocational services, with the aim of enabling States Parties to improve their capabilities and skills and to widen their experience in these areas. In this regard, particular account shall be taken of the needs of developing countries.
Stakeholders
Ministry of Health (MoH)
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Health Protection Agency (HPA)
Relevant Articles of the Constitution
35A - Children and young people are entitled to special protection and special assistance from the family, the community and the State. Children and young people shall not be harmed, sexually abused, or discriminated against in any manner and shall be free from unsuited social and economic exploitation. No person shall obtain undue benefit from their labour.
35B - Elderly and disadvantaged persons are entitled to protection and special assistance from the family, the community and the State.
34B - Children must be afforded special protection as specified in law in the event of a marital breakdown of the parents.
Relevant Legislation Articles
6 - Treatment and care of mentally or physically disabled children shall be facilitated to the extent possible at the time. Efforts shall be made to enable such children to participate in the activities of the community by providing the special care and assistance required by them
17 - Parents shall, as appropriate to the means available to them, provide medical care to children who are mentally or physically disabled at birth or thereafter, and shall make efforts to provide functional treatment to and rehabilitate such children.
1 to 16 - Social Protection
1 to 35 - Protection of the Rights and Provision of financial Assistance to Persons with Disabilities
Relevant Regulations & Policies
No Relevant Regulations & Policies
Relevant Articles of other Human Rights Conventions
ICCPR Article 2 - 1. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the rights recognized in the present Covenant, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. 2. Where not already provided for by existing legislative or other measures, each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to take the necessary steps, in accordance with its constitutional processes and with the provisions of the present Covenant, to adopt such laws or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to the rights recognized in the present Covenant. 3. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes: (a) To ensure that any person whose rights or freedoms as herein recognized are violated shall have an effective remedy, notwithstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official capacity; (b) To ensure that any person claiming such a remedy shall have his right thereto determined by competent judicial, administrative or legislative authorities, or by any other competent authority provided for by the legal system of the State, and to develop the possibilities of judicial remedy; (c) To ensure that the competent authorities shall enforce such remedies when granted.
ICESCR Article 1 - The right of self-determination and to freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, to freely dispose of their natural wealth and to be free from the deprivation of its own means of subsistence.
ICESCR Article 2 - Countries shall implement these rights “to the maximum of its available resources” and ensure equality in the enjoyment of the rights of the treaty.
CRPD Article 7 - Children with disabilities
ICERD Article 4 - Implementation of the instrument;
legal punishability of offences
Related Recommendations of other Treaty Bodies
No Related Recommendations of other Treaty Bodies
Related SDGs
No Related SDGs
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children with disabilities