My country legislation on health care of disabled people

Jaykumar N.
Group: 17LL4(a)
Acceptor: Tatyana Gavrilova

retardation is a highly prevalent and highly disabling condition. It

is generally considered that 2% of the Indian population constitutes persons with mental retardation. In India prevalence of mental retardation varies from 0.22-32.7 per thousand populations.

This act was declared in 1995.

children.

Bearing in mind the necessity of assisting mentally retarded persons

to develop their abilities in various fields of activities and of promoting their integration as far as possible in normal life.

To see the impact of disability of mentally challenged children on their parents.

of feasibility, the same rights as other human beings.
The mentally

retarded person has a right to proper medical care and physical therapy and to such education, training, rehabilitation and guidance as will enable him to develop his ability and maximum potential.
The mentally retarded person has a right to economic security and to a decent standard of living

and elements of the right to health.
A mentally ill

person is in need of special care and attention both at home and in the hospital for the simple reason that he/she is unable to fend for himself/herself.

independent life.
In India, family bears the main burden of

caring for such persons unlike in the developed world. Family members, particularly parents, are more affected by the condition.
Normally the people in the society and the professional workers do not feel the actual stress and the burden to the extent it is experienced by the family members of the MR child.

to mental retardation is affecting parents of such persons in

order to help those who are having negative impact and to find out how they are positively affected so that others can be helped in the same manner.

Aim of this study was to know the type of impact of having a MR child on the parents

with disabilities to have equal rights and opportunities with their

active participation .



“ DISABILITY IS NOT INABILITY”