On July 30, Hu Xiangyang, vice-chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the China Disabled Persons Federation, led a team to Hebei province to assess rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities.
The team visited various facilities in Shijiazhuang and Baoding, including medical institutions for rehabilitation, self-help organizations, and community service centers. They conducted thorough evaluations of institutional development, management practices, and service delivery, and held discussions with staff members.
Hu emphasized that rehabilitation institutions are crucial platforms for providing professional services to individuals with disabilities and form an important part of the care and service system for this group. He called on disabled persons federations at all levels to take a service-oriented approach, with medical rehabilitation as the foundation and comprehensive rehabilitation as the goal, to improve the planning and development of rehabilitation institutions and make efforts to provide continuous, comprehensive, and professional rehabilitation services for people with disabilities.
Hu also emphasized the importance of enhancing the involvement of individuals with disabilities in their own rehabilitation process. He called for expanding the training of self-help and mutual-aid rehabilitation practitioners, and building communities for such rehabilitation services through resource integration. He stressed the need to improve safety management and service supervision of contracted institutions providing rehabilitation for children with disabilities, ensuring safe and effective service delivery.
Additionally, Hu called for the enhancement of community service facilities in ways suited to local conditions, expanding of service offerings to meet the urgent needs, and innovation in operational models to address challenges such as community-based rehabilitation.