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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Florence Bore",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection",
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    "content": "The Act defines disability as physical, sensory, mental or other impairments including any visual, hearing, learning or physical incapability which impacts adversely on social economic or environmental participation. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities describes persons with disabilities as those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments, which in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. The registration process is noted. I may not go through all of them. Registration of an individual as a person with disability (PWD) starts with the person appearing before a medical panel in level four or five Government hospitals that conduct disability medical assessments across the country. The individual is given a disability medical assessment report signed by the County Director of Medical Services or the County Director of Health. The signature by the County Director of Medical Services or County Director of Health in the medical report is authority for the NCWPD to register persons with disability. On registration, an individual submits a copy of the signed medical report, a passport-size photo and a copy of the national identity card or birth certificate to the NCWPD across the 47 county offices in the county where registration takes place. To enhance standardisation in the disability medical process in all the counties, the Ministry of Health developed and put into operation a new disability assessment and categorisation guidelines that guide and standardise the assessment process across the country. The other steps are there. What is important is the assessment of an individual who requires a disability card, but he or she has to go to hospital. We may be having someone who has an issue with cancer and may have been amputated or someone with a disease like diabetes that causes amputation of the hand, finger or leg. For them to be assisted or be put into this system, they have to be assessed in a hospital and given a card. They can use it to get support at the NCWPD. On part (b) of the Question on cancer survivors, as per the assessment and authorisation guidelines, cancer survivors who lose any part of the bodies through amputation leading to limitations and functionality effects, are assessed and registered. That is exactly what I have mentioned. Thank you, Hon Temporary Speaker and Hon. Member."
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