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Title: People with Disabilities Rights Protection Act CH
Category: Ministry of Health and Welfare(衛生福利部)
Chapter 2 Rights and Interests of Health and Medical Care
Article 21
The central competent authority in charge of health shall plan and integrate the medical resources to provide people with disabilities with appropriate services concerning health maintenance and reproductive health.
The municipal and county (city) competent authorities shall provide periodical health examination and health care services for people with disabilities, as well as follow-up services with their willingness according to the health examination reports.
Regulations on the health care service, follow-up service, health examination items and methods mentioned in above paragraphs are prescribed by the central competent authority together with the central competent authority in charge of health.
Article 22
The competent authorities of individual levels in charge of health shall integrate medical care resources and provide individualized health and medical care service for people with disabilities, and assist welfare care facilities/institutions for people with disabilities to provide the required health and medical care services.
Article 23
Hospitals shall set up service entries for people with disabilities who have difficulty expressing their own needs or other special requirements, to help communication and other health-seeking related services.
Hospitals shall provide discharge planning program for the admitted people with disabilities and the program shall include the following items:
1. Home care proposals.
2. Rehabilitation proposals.
3. Referral services of medical care resources in community
4. In-home environment improvement proposals.
5. Assessment and usage proposals of assistive device appliance.
6. Transitional services.
7. Reconstruction of (daily) living service proposals.
8. Psychological counseling service proposals.
9. The implementation of discharge plan services should be listed as the item of hospital assessment by the central competent authorities.
Article 24
The municipal and county (city) competent authorities in charge of health shall, according to the population size and health-seeking need of people with disabilities, appoint hospitals to set up special clinics for people with disabilities.
Regulations on hospital qualification, practice departments, personnel deployment, medical care service facilities/installations, supervision and evaluation of the special clinic for people with disabilities in the above-mentioned paragraph shall be prescribed by the central competent authorities in charge of health.
Article 25
To reinforce health and medical care services for people with disabilities, the municipal and county (city) competent authorities in charge of health shall, according to the number of each category of people with disabilities and their need, establish or encourage the establishment of medical and rehabilitation facilities/institutions or nursing home, to provide medical care, rehabilitation, assistive device
services, day care and home care services, etc..
Regulations on encouraging the care facilities/institutions and services mentioned above for people with disabilities, shall be prescribed by the central competent authority in charge of health.
Article 26
Before the expenditure for medical care and rehabilitation services, and assistive devices needed by people with disabilities are included in the coverage of the National Health Insurance, the municipal and county (city) competent authorities shall subsidize people with disabilities according to the result of need evaluation/assessment. Regulations on the subsidization mentioned in paragraph above shall be prescribed by the central competent authority in charge of health together with the central competent authority.