Issuance Of Disability Cards For Palestinian Disabled

The Palestinian Disability Forum drawn upon the DRA to issue the Palestinian Disability Card that has been approved by the Statistics Project concerning Ain El Helweh and El Taameer camps (Eastern and western parts), the Return camp, the mount of Al Halib, and the villas till Sirop environs. The code number of DRA is 04.

The Association owns now a complete archive list of disabled persons and disability cases in the region and a specific file for each case. It is to be known that the number of disabled persons officially registered in the association has reached at the time of writing the present report, 1091 persons. This number may increase as time passes or it may decrease if death cases among the disabled have been totally excluded from the equation.

Overall Objectives: 
The Disability Card is considered as a social security card approved by: - All medical centers and hospitals affiliated to PRCS widespread on the Lebanese territory and in all camps and Palestinian gatherings. - All private and public medical clinics and centers in the Palestinian camps and gatherings. - Some Lebanese, private or public hospitals, medical and physiotherapy centers. The Disability Card is supposed to help Palestinians with disability: - Getting Emergency and ongoing humanitarian aids from some national and international associations, institutions and organizations. - repairing their homes and rehabilitating the roads they use to access to same. - Health, academic and professional rehabilitation.
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Start Date
Sat, 13/09/1997 - 3:00am
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