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Table 4

Stakeholder recommendations

Quote ID	Illustrative quote
P5	“Maybe they should promote it since I haven’t seen any ads”
HCW1	“We need to be stricter with medical certificates. Many abuse medical certificates just to apply for persons with disabilities status.”
HCW3	“It’s really in education, at the med(ical) school level. It’s not just on the end of doctors and persons with disabilities. It should include stakeholders at all levels. Give a comprehensive list – inclusion exclusion criteria that is very checklist type.”
HCW4	“There should be a checklist that tells if the patient is really a person with disability and what level of person with disability whether partial, or severe or etc. It is not dependent on the diagnosis alone, it should be dependent on other parameters like is there a functional evaluation of the patient…Disability also has to be qualified [ …] It can be bed bound, it can be mild, etc. so benefits can be based on level of disability. Not all will be of the same caliber.”
HCW5	“Better record-keeping and checks and balances are needed, so that one LGU can monitor another and vice versa to ensure compliance. If any discrepancies are found, there should be a reporting mechanism in place for appropriate actions and penalties. Every LGU should adhere to the same standards…Those caught should be put to jail. If one is proven to have obtained [the persons with disability card] illegally, then he and his doctor should go to jail.”
LGU1	“More on advocacy. Because if we do not have an advocacy for the program/law, people are not aware. Persons with disabilities and their families do not know their privilege. The RA is useless if we don’t advocate the person […] Encourage persons with disabilities who are not yet members or holders of cards to coordinate with their local PDAO office to avail and secure their id cos its free of charge.”
LGU2	“It’s the implementation and safeguarding/checking the rules of the ID. There are cases of restaurants wherein families eat out at and the discounts are given for the total bill – this is wrong. It should only cover the persons with disability’s share or what the person with disability eats.”
LGU3	“All should follow the RA. For some establishments, the discount in their system is 20% only. I recommend they change their system to less 12 then less 20 which is NOT the same as less 32%… We need more establishments to be more accessible to persons with disabilities since that is severely lacking in the country (like access ramp, comfort room for disabled, etc.)…We utilize typewritten ID font, laminated cardboard, initial ID on the back is valid, and are able to discern fakes”
LGU4	“We now have a unified ID with features like a chip, QR code, sequential ID numbers that will enable them to distinguish fake IDs right away.”

Quote ID	Illustrative quote
P5	“Maybe they should promote it since I haven’t seen any ads”
HCW1	“We need to be stricter with medical certificates. Many abuse medical certificates just to apply for persons with disabilities status.”
HCW3	“It’s really in education, at the med(ical) school level. It’s not just on the end of doctors and persons with disabilities. It should include stakeholders at all levels. Give a comprehensive list – inclusion exclusion criteria that is very checklist type.”
HCW4	“There should be a checklist that tells if the patient is really a person with disability and what level of person with disability whether partial, or severe or etc. It is not dependent on the diagnosis alone, it should be dependent on other parameters like is there a functional evaluation of the patient…Disability also has to be qualified [ …] It can be bed bound, it can be mild, etc. so benefits can be based on level of disability. Not all will be of the same caliber.”
HCW5	“Better record-keeping and checks and balances are needed, so that one LGU can monitor another and vice versa to ensure compliance. If any discrepancies are found, there should be a reporting mechanism in place for appropriate actions and penalties. Every LGU should adhere to the same standards…Those caught should be put to jail. If one is proven to have obtained [the persons with disability card] illegally, then he and his doctor should go to jail.”
LGU1	“More on advocacy. Because if we do not have an advocacy for the program/law, people are not aware. Persons with disabilities and their families do not know their privilege. The RA is useless if we don’t advocate the person […] Encourage persons with disabilities who are not yet members or holders of cards to coordinate with their local PDAO office to avail and secure their id cos its free of charge.”
LGU2	“It’s the implementation and safeguarding/checking the rules of the ID. There are cases of restaurants wherein families eat out at and the discounts are given for the total bill – this is wrong. It should only cover the persons with disability’s share or what the person with disability eats.”
LGU3	“All should follow the RA. For some establishments, the discount in their system is 20% only. I recommend they change their system to less 12 then less 20 which is NOT the same as less 32%…We need more establishments to be more accessible to persons with disabilities since that is severely lacking in the country (like access ramp, comfort room for disabled, etc.)…We utilize typewritten ID font, laminated cardboard, initial ID on the back is valid, and are able to discern fakes”
LGU4	“We now have a unified ID with features like a chip, QR code, sequential ID numbers that will enable them to distinguish fake IDs right away.”