Filipino families raising children with disabilities spend 40 to 80 percent more than those who do not, leaving them with poverty rates “that are 50 percent or higher” compared to other households. | janebautistaINQ /PDI
“[B]y far the main source of extra costs concerns health expenditure, where households with a disability card spent a share of their budget that was almost three times more than those of other households,” the report said.
“Travel to metropolitan areas was essential to access some services or medications. One family said they would travel three hours and spend P2,000 on fuel to obtain Tacrolimus, a drug to prevent organ rejection following their child’s transplant,” it added.
Unicef Philippines representative Oyunsaikhan Dendevnorov called on the government, development partners and civil society to ensure that public policy would work for children with disability and their voices would be heard in the drafting of legislation.
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