On Tuesday, the
Ministry of Health launched the National Rehabilitation Strategic Plan
(2020-2024) under the patronage of HRH Prince Mired bin Raad, president of the
Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and in
collaboration with the World Health Organization (
WHO) and
Human and Inclusion (HI).
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During an event
marking the launch, Prince Mired highlighted that the rehabilitation strategy comes
in response to law provisions and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities.
“This strategy
represents an important and necessary step towards framing ... of
rehabilitation services as well as subjecting them to quality standards ...
This will contribute to the sustainability, continuous development, and upgrade
of services to keep pace with the actual needs of beneficiaries who should be
partners in the process of evaluating and improving these services,” the prince
said.
The prince stressed
the need to provide accessible rehabilitation services that meet people’s requirements,
given the “great importance” of rehabilitation as a means of integrating persons
with disabilities into society and enabling them to exercise their rights,
freedoms, and daily life activities independently and privately.
“What we need today,
through this strategy, is to provide access to an integrated system of services
that includes early detection and intervention programs and clear effective
referral mechanisms that help prevent aggravation and, perhaps, its multiplicity
of disabilities,” said Prince Mired.
Addressing the
audience, the minister of health, Feras Al-Hawari, said that despite the
“difficult, exceptional” circumstances proliferated by the COVID-19 pandemic,
the MoH was able to maintain the continuity and quality of the health services
provided to residents of the Kingdom.
“We look forward to
the real operationalization of this strategy in light of our quest to achieve the
royal visions on health, especially universal health coverage, of which
rehabilitation constitutes a fundamental pillar,” said Hawari.
The minister told
Jordan News that the MoH serves as an umbrella
for such strategies.
“This is an
action-oriented strategy, not just mere ink on paper. Hence, the ministry will
support it and establish the necessary steps to proceed with and operationalize
(it) at health centers and the zones where it is needed,” he explained.
Hala Sakr, regional
advisor on violence, injuries, and disabilities at WHO, commended Jordan for
being one of the first countries in the Middle East to develop a practical
strategic plan to enhance rehabilitation programs and services using relevant WHO
tools.
“WHO has been a key
supporter (of) the national efforts of (the) MoH and its partners to assess the
existing situation on which the strategy was based,” Sakr told
Jordan News.
“The strategy is a
very important step, but it is the first step on a longer road,” added the
advisor. “The important thing is to implement the interventions proposed by the
strategy to improve rehabilitation services and programs in Jordan.”
For his part, Federico
Dessi, regional manager of Human and Inclusion’s Jordan mission, called on international
donors and actors involved in rehabilitation activities in the Kingdom to
assist both Jordanians and refugees with disabilities in Jordan, and to provide
financial and technical assistance to the health ministry and the concerned
authorities to implement this strategy.
“We at HI are ready to
support (the) MoH and all other parties in carrying out this strategy over the
coming years, within the limits of our financial and human resources,” Dessi
said.
During the ceremony, Ali Al-Rjoub, liaison officer for
the strategy and head of the physical medicine and rehabilitation department at
Al-Bashir Hospital, reviewed the stages of the strategy, starting with the
development of a rehabilitation platform that follows “clear objectives and
measurable and controllable standards.”
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