F. Basic Health and Welfare
Children with Disabilities
28. Appreciating the efforts of the State Party in respecting the rights of children with
disability, the Committee recommends the State Party to strengthen its efforts and to
ensure that all children with disability have access public facilities such as medical
centers, sport fields and playgrounds. Moreover, the Committee recommends the
State Party to establish orthopedic services and where services are available to
ensure that the services are more accessible, and flexible. Moreover, the Committee
recommends the State Party to adopt a standard definition of disability in statistical
data gathering within government ministries and across the country and to exert
effort to prevent disabilities and disabling diseases before and after birth.
Health and Health Services
29. The Committee notes with satisfaction the measures taken and the results achieved
in the health care services including the provision of free health care service for
children, increased number of health care workers as well as declined rate of
maternal, infant and under five mortality rate. Despite these commendable
achievements, studies signal that tuberculosis, hepatitis, typhoid fever, cholera, and
dysentery are risk factors for children. Therefore, the Committee recommends the
State Party to make interventions to prevent and treat children from the risk factors.
The Committee also recommends the State Party to strengthen its efforts in
providing adequate access to antenatal care and delivery in health facilities.
30. The Committee recommends the State Party to explore solutions for children at risk
of under-nutrition through the provision of iron-folate, promotion of exclusive breast
feeding for the first six months after birth, and of complimentary feeding.
31. Furthermore, the Committee recommends the State Party to ensure that provision of
public health services particularly the provision of primary health care services is
evenly distributed in urban and rural areas. In this regard, the Committee calls upon
the State Party to ensure that vulnerable children have access to basic health
services and nutrition programs.
32. The Committee recommends the State Party to ensure that adolescent children
have access to reproductive health information, services and care. In this regard, the
Committee recommends the State Party to particularly reach children who drop-out
of school, living in the streets, in refugee camps, and who are in other hazardous
conditions.
G. Education, leisure and cultural activities