Health Services

Rehablitation Services

Objective:
To provide on a national level a wide range of rehabilitation services for persons with impairments and disabilities, aimed at enabling them to achieve an optimum level of functioning (physical, cognitive, social and emotional), thus affording them the means to change their lives towards acquiring a greater level of independence.

Sub- programmes

* Administration
* Rehabilitation services
* National Vocational Training centre for Persons with Disabilities.

Key responsibilities

• Provide a range for rehabilitative services in response to demand from persons with impairments and disabilities.
• Facilitate programme manager applying the team approach in designing policies and programmes for the respective disciplines.
• Ensure effective and efficient service delivery at all levels by provision of adequate human financial and material resources (train staff, properly maintained and functioning equipment);
• For each sub-programme, provide community-base rehabilitation to widen coverage of rehabilitation services and to facilitate clients remaining in their homes and communities, thus minimizing the need for costly institution-based rehabilitation and re-integration;
• Ensure efficient supervision and accountability for all related rehabilitation facilities of a semiautonomous nature.
• Provide vocational rehabilitation, counseling and training.

Key results

• Appropriately designed policies and programmes in all areas of rehabilitation services (e.g speech therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, audiology, vocational rehabilitation)
• High quality rehabilitation services with increase access by persons with impairments and disabilities in urban and rural areas
• Adequate numbers of trained staff at various levels of service delivery providing efficient and effective rehabilitation.
• Adequately equipped rehabilitation units and centres and effective community-based programmes.
• Greater level of independence and involvement of persons with disability in family and community life.
• Opportunities for skilled persons with disabilities (e.g. national commission on Disability and the Ptolemy Reid rehabilitation centre).