CRC/C/KHM/CO/2-3 marginalized in the society, rejected by their own families and highly discriminated against, in particular with regard to their access to health and education services; (d) Most services for children with disabilities are provided by NGOs. 52. The Committee urges the State party to ensure effective implementation of the Law on Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the 2008 Policy on Education for Children with Disabilities, notably by allocating the necessary human, technical and financial resources. The Committee also recommends that the State party: (a) Collect comprehensive data on children with disabilities disaggregated by age, sex, type of disabilities, geographic location, ethnicity and socio-economic background and use such data to analyse the causes of disabilities and develop policies and programmes to prevent disabilities and to assist children with disabilities; (b) Adopt a policy for early screening, identification, early intervention and prevention of disabilities; (c) Ensure that basic services for children with disabilities are provided as a State responsibility; (d) Train more health specialists and conduct mobile clinics offering health services to children with disabilities, especially in rural areas; (e) Conduct programmes with the assistance of the media, civil society organizations and community leaders to raise awareness of the rights of children with disabilities and to combat discrimination against them; (f) Improve the quality of mainstream and special education, and further develop non-formal education programmes as well as comprehensive and regular teacher training adapted to the different types of disabilities; (g) Ratify the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; (h) Take into consideration the Committee’s general comment No. 9 (2006) on the rights of children with disabilities. Health and health services 53. While noting the efforts made by the State party to develop its health system, the Committee is concerned at the limited availability, accessibility, quality and utilization of health services, especially in remote areas, the widespread shortage of skilled health personnel and the persistent inequalities in health-care access and use between rural and urban areas. The Committee also expresses particularly concern that: (a) Infant, under-five and maternal mortality rates remain high; (b) Half of the State party’s under-five children are underweight; (c) An estimated 100 children die every day in the State party as a result of preventable and treatable diseases such as diarrhoea and pneumonia; (d) There are no free medical services for poor children, including children in street situations; and (e) 54. 12 There is a dearth of mental health services for children in the State party. The Committee recommends that the State party: