“PROMOTING INITIAL LEGAL SUPPORT AND POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN PATIENT VISITATION AND MEDICAL EXAMINATION FOR PEOPLE WITH HEARING LOSS (DEAF, HARD OF HEARING, LATE-DEAFENED)”

The project “Promoting initial legal support and policy implementation in patient visitation and medical examination for people with hearing loss (deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened)” of the Center for Research and Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (CED) has been approved by the Justice Initiatives Facilitation Fund (JIFF).

 

 

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 community health students.

3. Training Sign Language interpreters.

4. Research: on the state of implementation of the policy for supporting people with hearing loss in accessing public health care services, and on the state of knowing of people with hearing loss about their rights and needs for support in medical examination.

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

 

The Justice Initiatives Facilitation Fund (EU JULE JIFF, JIFF) is one of the two components in the programme “EU Justice and Legal Empowerment in Vietnam” (EU JULE), sponsored by EU and coordinated by Oxfam in Vietnam, in order to contribute in strengthening the rule of law in Vietnam through a more reliable, trusted and better accessed justice system. The call for initiatives this year’s theme focuses on strengthening justice access and protecting rights of people in labour and work and implementation of administrative procedure in health care and education.

 

 

Duong Phuong Hanh

Director of the Center for Research and Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (CED)

General Secretary of the International Federation of Hard of Hearing People (IFHOH)

President of the Asia Pacific Federation of the Hard of Hearing and Deafened (APFHD)