{"id":259968,"date":"2023-09-14T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=259968"},"modified":"2023-10-08T08:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T03:05:15","slug":"for-sickle-cell-patients-an-elusive-disability-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/for-sickle-cell-patients-an-elusive-disability-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"For sickle cell patients, an elusive disability certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>For sickle cell patients, an elusive disability certificate<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 published in<\/span><b> The Hindu on 14th September 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union government has been publicizing its campaign to \u2018eradicate\u2019 sickle-cell disease by 2047.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there are some issues the government is facing in the issuance of disability certificates to sickle-cell disease (SCD) patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Sickle-cell disease(SCD)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/health-ministrys-fight-against-sickle-cell-anaemia-to-follow-gujarat-playbook\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the issues the government is facing in issuance of Disability certificates to sickle-cell disease patients?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Delay in issuance of Disability certificates: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian government has been delaying the issue of permanent disability certificates to individuals with sickle-cell disease (SCD) aged five and above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 This issue has been stuck in three different Union Ministries for nearly three years.The Health Ministry is responsible for setting the criteria, the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry issues the certificates and the Tribal Affairs Ministry is keen on ensuring certificates for those suffering from chronic anemia and SCD-related complications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Duration of Disability certificates:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sickle cell <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disease was added to the list of disabilities under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.At that time, patients could only get disability certificates with a one-year validity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 However, patients complained about the cumbersome procedure for renewal of the certificates. Eventually, the validity of the certificates was increased to three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 But now there is a demand for the need for permanent disability certificates because of the progressive nature of the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cFor sickle cell patients, an elusive disability certificate\u201d\u00a0 published in The Hindu on 14th September 2023 What is the News? The Union government has been publicizing its campaign to \u2018eradicate\u2019 sickle-cell disease by 2047. But there are some issues the government is facing in the issuance of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/for-sickle-cell-patients-an-elusive-disability-certificate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For sickle cell patients, an elusive disability certificate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-259968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":8,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698377117},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}