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provide DSS in more universities so that persons with disabilities of all

types have more choices of educational institutions for higher studies.

Right to Health and Rehabilitation (Articles 25 and 26)

45. Medical rehabilitation in public hospitals is not adequate and do not

respond effectively to the needs of persons with disabilities. The provision

of rehabilitation equipment and assistive devices is available only in certain

hospitals and there is no early intervention service for very small children.

Some provincial hospitals do not have enough expertise for rehabilitation.

However, concerned government agencies have made some efforts to

make health care services more accessible to people at the local level.

Specific budget is allocated to local administration organizations in 39

provinces to provide for health care services in their localities, including

rehabilitation and other basic services necessary for an independent living

of persons with disabilities at their homes. Such services are administered

jointly by the Social Development Office and the public hospital in each

province.

46. The provision of rehabilitation equipment and assistive devices is rather

limited. The Public Health Ministry issued an announcement in 2009 stating

that persons with disabilities may receive 26 items of medical rehabilitation

services, but the National Health Security Office (NHSO), who is the public

health service provider, offers only 9 such services. Rehabilitation services

provided by public hospitals and the Sirindhorn National Medical

Rehabilitation Center are mostly for mobility disabilities while those for other

types of disability are lacking. Assistive devices in the NHSO package are not

of good quality as the quotation prices set by the government for such

devices are rather low. Sirindhorn Center has assistive devices for lending