impaired, hearing-impaired, and orthopedically-impaired students, mentally retarded, and multi-handicapped and other, and the elimination of social barriers and discrimination against disabled persons; and (d) inclusion of the Special Education for Disabled (SPED) course in the curriculum. The National Government shall provide these state universities and colleges with the necessary special facilities for visuallyimpaired, hearingimpaired, speech impaired, and orthopedically-impaired students. It shall likewise allocate the necessary funds in support of the above. CHAPTER 3 – Health SECTION 18. National Health Program The Department of Health, in coordination with National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons, shall institute a national health program which shall aim to attain the following: (a). prevention of disability, whether occurring prenatally or post-natally; (b). recognition and early diagnosis of disability; and (c). early rehabilitation of the disabled. SECTION 19. Rehabilitation Centers The Department of Health shall establish medical rehabilitation centers in government provincial hospitals, and shall include it annual appropriation the necessary funds for the operation of such centers. The Department of Health shall formulate and implement a program to enable marginalized disabled persons to avail of free rehabilitation services in government hospitals. SECTION 20. Health Services The State shall protect and promote the right to health of disabled persons and shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to their health development which shall make essential health services available to them at affordable cost. The National Government shall provide an integrated health service for disabled persons which shall include, but not limited to, the following: (a). prevention of disability through immunization, nutrition, environmental protection and preservation, and genetic counselling; and early detection of disability and timely intervention to arrest disabling condition; and (b). medical treatment and rehabilitation. The Department of Health shall field medical personnel specializing in the treatment and rehabilitation of disabled persons to provincial hospitals and, when viable, to municipal health centers. It shall also train its field health personnel in the provision of medical attention to disabled persons. It shall further ensure that its field health units have the necessary capabilities to fit prosthetic and orthotic appliances on disabled persons. CHAPTER 4 Auxiliary Social Services SECTION 21. Auxiliary Social Services The State shall ensure that marginalized persons are provided with the necessary auxiliary services that will restore their social functioning and participation in community affairs. Toward this end, the Department of Social Welfare and Development shall develop and implement programs on auxiliary social services that respond to the needs of marginalized disabled persons. The components of such a program shall be as follows: (a). assistance in the acquisition of prosthetic devices and medical intervention of specialty services; (b). provision of specialized training activities designed to improved functional limitations of disabled persons related to communications skills; (c). development among disabled persons of a positive self-image through the provision of counselling, orientation and mobility and strengthening daily living capability; (d). provision of family care services geared towards developing the capability of families to respond to the needs of the disabled members of the family; (e). provision of substitute family care services and the facilities therefore for abandoned, neglected, abused and unattached disabled persons who need custodial care; (f). provision of after care and follow-up services for the continued rehabilitation in a community-based setting of disabled persons who were released from the residential care or rehabilitation center; and (g). provision of day care services for disabled children of pre-school age. CHAPTER 5 – Telecommunications SECTION 22. Broadcast Media Television stations shall be encouraged to provide a sign language inset or subtitles in at least one (1) newscast program a day and special program covering events of national significance. SECTION 23. Telephone Services All telephone companies shall be encouraged to install special telephone devices or units for the hearing-impaired and ensure that they