He highlighted his website: http://www.wpro.who.int/rehabilitation/en/ and their most recent report. Here are a few key quotes from the report:
Rehabilitation and Disability in the Western Pacific
- "In 70% of countries in the Western Pacific Region, speech and occupational therapy is not available in the majority of their tertiary hospitals." (p. 18)
- "Occupational therapy and speech pathology are extremely limited in the lower middle-income countries and almost nonexistent in the Pacific island countries." (p. 24)
- "In Pacific island countries, occupational therapy, rehabilitation medicine and speech pathology are not available in over 50% of tertiary hospitals. The Pacific island countries reported that some rehabilitation services are sometimes provided by “fly-in missions” from high-income countries and international volunteers, but not in substantial numbers." (p. 25)
