Section 20Sec./Art. 20

Health Services.- The State shall protect and promote the right to health of disabled persons and shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to their health development which shall make essential health services available to them at affordable cost.

The National Government shall provide an integrated health service for disabled persons which shall include, but not limited to, the following:

a. prevention of disability through immunization, nutrition, environmental protection and preservation, and genetic counseling; and early detection of disability and timely intervention to arrest disabling condition; and

b. medical treatment and rehabilitation.

The Department of Health shall field medical personnel specializing in the treatment and rehabilitation of disabled persons to provincial hospitals and when viable to municipal health centers. It shall also train its field health personnel in the provision of medical attention to disabled persons. It shall further ensure that its field health units have the necessary capabilities to fit prosthetic and orthotic appliances on disabled persons.

CHAPTER 4 - Auxiliary Social Services