CCTV News:According to statistics, there are more than 2 million disabled people in China every year. Rehabilitation is an important means to prevent and reduce disability and improve the quality of life of disabled people. In Shanxi, Beijing and other places, government departments have comprehensively improved the level of rehabilitation security for the disabled and strived to improve their quality of life.
Zhang Jinghan, a little girl who is receiving massage therapy, was diagnosed with comprehensive developmental retardation and language development disorder when she was 10 months old.
Last year, she applied for an early intervention and rehabilitation program for disabled children, and received a monthly rehabilitation fee of 2,400 yuan. After nearly a year of rehabilitation training, the little guy has made great progress now.
Zhang Jinghan’s mother, Shi Xuefang:(Now) the child has changed a lot. Before, she couldn’t speak. She couldn’t look at people, neither physically nor intellectually. After taking the intelligence class, she has made great progress. She knows all the colors and can read. It’s quite a surprise.
In Shanxi, like Zhang Jinghan, there are 45,000 disabled children who enjoy rehabilitation training, surgery, assistive devices adaptation and other relief services, and 186 designated institutions for children’s rehabilitation have been identified in the province. For six years in a row, the provincial government has listed "implementing key interventions for disability prevention and rescue rehabilitation projects for disabled children" as a practical matter of people’s livelihood to promote it, and invested more than 25 million yuan in special funds every year.
Gong Cheng, Chairman of Shanxi Disabled Persons’ Federation:Next, we will change the age of children’s rehabilitation from 0-mdash; 6 years old expanded to 0— At the age of 15, more disabled children get effective rehabilitation training.
The rehabilitation of disabled children is urgent, and the rehabilitation of adults with disabilities is equally important. In the warm home of Balizhuang Street, Haidian District, Beijing, from Monday to Friday, dozens of mentally disabled people will have free rehabilitation activities here every day, and medical workers will provide services for them regularly.
At present, the proportion of rehabilitation clinics in Beijing community health service centers has reached 56.8%, 19 public medical institutions have transformed into rehabilitation institutions, and the setting rate of rehabilitation medicine departments in tertiary general hospitals has reached 95%.