The document sets out general guidelines for health services

The Regional Minister of Health, Manuela García, closed the presentation of the guide ‘360º accessibility in hospital environments’, produced by ILUNION Accessibility, with the collaboration of ONCE and Sandoz.

Article 25 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities sets out the right of this group ‘to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health’, which implies accessible, quality healthcare, as close as possible and with specific services.

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The Regional Minister of Health closes the presentation of the guide ‘360º Accessibility in Hospital Environments’

The guide sets out general guidelines for health services, such as the inclusive attitude of health staff, and that both communication and health documentation should be accessible and inclusive, as well as health environments and equipment. It also establishes specific guidelines for patient care, outpatient consultations, hospitalisation, rehabilitation, surgery, emergencies, hospital pharmacy and medical tests. It also includes a selection of good practices identified during the development of the manual by the people and organisations that participated in it.

The councillor for Health assured that the guide has already become ‘a key document for the social and healthcare sector’ while praising the work carried out by the ONCE Foundation and its company ILUNION.

García assured that they will take the guide ‘as their own and we will continue to make progress in the accessibility of spaces and humanisation’. Finally, the councillor reminded the audience that the Health Service has an annual budget of 300,000 euros for projects presented by the different departments and that priority will be given to those that promote and advance towards universal accessibility.

The event, which took place at Son Espases Hospital, was inaugurated by the director general of the Health Service, Javier Ureña, who stressed that ‘good accessibility increases the quality of care we offer our citizens’, and expressed the Health Service’s commitment to inclusion.