people with disabilities is to enhance the status of the precious group in Saudi society.
The Secretary General of the Federation of Arab Hospitals, Professor Tawfiq Ahmed Khoja, expressed his deep thanks and appreciation to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud - may God protect him - for the great attention and support that people with disabilities receive. He also recorded his thanks and appreciation to His Highness, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister. Prince Mohammed bin Salman - may God protect him - on what all sectors were based on through his directives to support persons with disabilities in all fields.
He said that the approval of the Council of Ministers on the comprehensive system of rights of persons with disabilities embodies the affirmation and guarantee that this precious group in our Saudi society obtains all their rights, in addition to strengthening the services provided to them from various sectors, empowering them in the labor market and their integration within society, as well as educating society about disability, with the aim of achieving a society Comprehensive and appropriate to achieve independence for them, as well as promote independence, integration and empowerment, and raise the level of awareness of persons with disabilities of their rights related to disability.
And he added, “Divine legislation, and then human legislation, stressed the need to give everyone who has a right his right to all creatures, including humans, as those legislations ensured for them the preservation of dignity, justice, equality, and their right to security, education, health, work, rehabilitation, etc. And as a reflection of these legislations, many systems have been put in place to guarantee the rights of people.” People with comprehensive disabilities, including obtaining a decent social life that guarantees them studies, work, treatment and marriage, like all healthy people.
Prof. Khoja concluded
The Kingdom affirmed its role in embracing this important segment and enabling it to achieve its aspirations for the future, improve the quality of their lives, and remove obstacles and barriers that prevent their capabilities, by establishing the Authority for the Care of Persons with Disabilities, which bears the vision of achieving a decent life for persons with disabilities and enabling them to participate comprehensively and effectively in society. Based on its mission of organizing efforts and building an integrated institutional system to remove barriers to persons with disabilities and their comprehensive empowerment in society without discrimination, the values that the authority bases on implementing its work are participation, inclusiveness, empowerment, initiative, education and innovation, the pillars of building the national system and coordinating Roles, development of the legislative and regulatory structure, promotion and integration of services, and institutional excellence In order to empower people with disabilities and make them active members of society in line with the Kingdom''s Vision 2030.
