(1) The Government of Nepal shall make provision for the provision of free health service and necessary therapy services including speech therapy, ocopational therapy to those persons with disabilities whose annual income is less than the income as prescribed or who are admitted to governmental hospitals for the treatment of the prescribed diseases.
Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, the term “hospital” also includes a health centre.
(2) The Government of Nepal shall provide free the medicines that need to be taken due to the disability and such factor as may be necessary for the persons with disability related to haemophilia on such basis as prescribed.
(3) The Government of Nepal shall make necessary provisions to remove the barriers that exist to the access of the persons with disabilities to hospitals for treatment.
(4) The health workers of hospitals shall provide quality treatment service to the extent of availability to the persons with disabilities with priority.
(5) A hospital that has more than twenty-five beds operated by the government and private sector shall reserve at least two beds for the persons with disabilities.
(6) The Government of Nepal shall make necessary provisions for the prevention and abolition of the disability that can be prevented or abolished and for the discovery of the factors that cause disability and prevention, abolition, control and treatment thereof.
(7) The Government of Nepal shall make necessary provisions for making available treatment by nearby hospitals for the mitigation of dystrophy of organs and their functions.