Accessibility Of Health Services For People With Disability In Saint Peter General Hospital Addis Ababa Ethiopia

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This study attempted to assess accessibility of health services for people with disability in Saint Peter rnGeneral Hospital at Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Unavailability of enough medical services and physical rnfacilities for people with disabilities in the target study area was the main problem of the study which rninspired the researcher to do this study. The objective of the study is to assess an accessibility of health rnservices for people with disability in Saint Peter General Hospital at Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. In the rnresearch, descriptive design was basically used. People with disabilities who visited the hospital since rnJanuary to February 2020 were the main sources of data of the study in addition to observation and rnsecondary data. Questionnaire, observation and document assessment techniques were used to collect rndata. The data of this study was analyzed using quantitative and observational methods. Sixty-twornpatients with disabilities participated in this study as respondents with mean age of 37.9 years. The rnstudy reveals that 47% of roads and 65% of the rest rooms in the hospital were not accessible for person rnwith disability. Besides, the study also depicted that 66% of people with disability who visited the rnhospital faced barriers and 74% of the study population were not satisfied with the service they received.rnThe study also identified as there is limited medical person trained on disability related trainings and no rnnon-medical staffs trained so far, no budget allocated for service accessibility, no designated staff who rnsupports person with disability while visiting the hospital. To fill these gaps, the hospital needs to rnevaluate its current physical facilities and medical services and has to be reorganized these aspects to rnease medical service access for patients with disabilities.

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