Social action to achieve a dignified life for people with disabilities in the occupied Palestinian territory

When people with disabilities (PWDs) and civil society in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) exhausted their calls for basic human rights and dignity for PWDs in the absence of credible representative bodies and with the Palestinian Legislative Council dissolved in 2018,1 we decided to induce...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2021-03, Vol.397 (10277), p.861-862
Main Author: Srour, Shatha Abu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arabs
Coronaviruses
Councils
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Disabilities
Disability
Disabled Persons
Government
Health insurance
Health Services Accessibility
Human Rights
Humans
Insurance
Insurance, Health
Legislation
Middle East
Pandemics
People with disabilities
Prime ministers
Quality of Life
Rehabilitation
SARS-CoV-2
Social action
Surgery
Territory
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Summary:When people with disabilities (PWDs) and civil society in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) exhausted their calls for basic human rights and dignity for PWDs in the absence of credible representative bodies and with the Palestinian Legislative Council dissolved in 2018,1 we decided to induce a turning point by taking social action. The Palestinian Basic Law stipulates that any person with a disability has the right to comprehensive governmental health insurance, yet only an estimated 14 000–17 000 of more than 90 000 PWDs in the oPt have governmental health insurance.2 Under the governmental health insurance (law number 113) for 2004, disability is not mentioned as an eligibility criterion; and the service package excludes several services and interventions for PWDs—eg, rehabilitation, assisting devices, disability assessment, and necessary surgeries. During our sit-in we submitted a position paper that included our demands pertaining to the health insurance system and a proposed national health insurance system for PWDs and their families to the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Social Development.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00356-1