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1. From Rapid Assistive Technology Survey 2023 which was done in Uganda the Main barrier to wards access to rehabilitation services was that most individuals did not have knowledge where the services were being offered and those who had an idea failed to access the rehabilitation services due to lack of transports since in Uganda rehabilitation health service have not been well allocated in the main stream primary health care plan due to lack of a national strategic plan for rehabilitation and Assistive technology services.
This left rehabilitation services at only national and regional referral hospitals.
The lack of a clear policy on provision of rehabilitation services as made these services very hard to access and very expensive since the lack of policy as creates a vacuum as to regards budget allocation to wards rehabilitation and ATs services in Uganda.
There is also limited advance knowledge on provision of Rehabilitation and AT services in Uganda for example the use of 3D technology as not been rolled out into the government orthopaedic workshops. The clinical health worker who handle out patients have limited knowledge on rehabilitation and AT service, this as lead to missed diagnosis of patients who would have benefited from Rehabilitation services because of not being referred to the right department.

2. The all solution to all these barriers will be the development of the Uganda national strategic plan for rehabilitation and Assistive technology which in is in its final stage. This will address the challenge of population sensitization on the access to rehabilitation services.
Integration of rehabilitation services into the primary health care package will bring services closer to the people to solve the change of transportation through community based health care program.
Health Professional association should embrace CPDs to enable their professionals acquired the most current trends in technology. The government should facility its rehabilitation health workers to attain more advanced training so that they can use the most current technology in providing rehabilitation services for exampling 3D printing of stamp sockets and braces.

3. More research should be carried our access the health workers knowledge gap towards rehabilitation and AT service provision.

4. Factors to consider during implementation include;
The intervention must be satisfactory to the involved stakeholders and its express good intentions for the population of Uganda.
The intervention sound relevant and cost effective to implement. The intervention should be applicable to our local setting.
The intervention should be easily integrated in the Uganda national health care package and should be sustainable for along time.
5. Implicit biases towards rehabilitation include stereotyping the people from educated well off families to be understanding of the rehabilitation self care than those from rural poor un educated communities. This Implicit makes most health workers to give more attention to those from the elite class during rehabilitation.