PROJECT “PROMOTING THE INITIAL LEGAL SUPPORT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF REGULATIONS ON MEDICAL EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT FOR PEOPLE WITH HEARING LOSS (DEAF, HARD OF HEARING AND DEAFENED)”

Center for Research and Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (CED) are implementing step by step the project approved by the Justice Initiatives Facilitation Fund (JIFF) “Promoting the initial legal support and implementation of regulations on medical examination and treatment for people with hearing loss (deaf, hard of hearing and deafened)”.

 

This project aims to support people with hearing loss in Ho Chi Minh city to access public medical services in patient visiting and medical examination as well as to support some hospitals to meet the Hospital Quality Criteria, version 2.0 (Issued together with the Decision No. 6858/QD-BYT, November 18, 2016 by Minister of Health). 

 

The project will be implemented in one year, including these following activities:

1. Communication: Coordinating with lawyer/Legal support center to communicate about the Vietnam Hospital Quality Criteria; providing information, legal policy, rights and benefits for people with hearing loss from Law on People with Disabilities, International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Law on Children, Law on the Elderly, Law on Social Insurance…

2. Training “Skills for supporting people with hearing loss in hospitals” for health care staff and public health students.

3. Training Sign Language interpretation.

4. Research: Assessing capability of hospitals in meeting patients with hearing loss’ needs: Case study “Vietnam Hospital Quality Criteria”.

5. Publishing the Handbook on Skills for supporting people with hearing loss in patient visitation and medical examination.