Reply To: Model 1 Forum 1 Exercise 2

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Uganda with a population of over 45 million people and it being a developing country the National health care system as not fully addressed the issue of physical rehabilitation despite other challenges the government as invested in rehabilitation human resource with most of the rehabilitation professions recruited in the main stream health system. We have rehabilitation professionals employed at the National referral to the regional referral hospitals and below the region there no rehabilitation services the biggest changes those employed face is the lack of direct budget allocation for these services. Today In Uganda rehabilitation services and ATs is main provided by PNFP and NGOs. As a country with the help of Re-LAB HS we are in the final stages of development of the National Health care plan for rehabilitation and Assistive technology which will enable us to have rehabilitation services fully adopted in the primary health care package. This will address the main pressing challenges of.
Policy on rehabilitation and AT services Human resource development and regulation
Budget allocation for Rehabilitation services and AT