Participants in a view exchange and consultation programme at Barisal Sher E Bangla Medical College on Sunday called for extending coordinated medicare facilities as a right for the people with disabilities. They also suggested a disability inclusive development agenda by creating a sustainable infrastructure. The programme was arranged by ARDRID-CRP (Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed) of Barisal at the conference room of the SBMC surgery unit.
The speakers highlighted the progress and obstacles in implementing disability-sensitive policies, as well as promoted public awareness to break barriers and open doors for an inclusive society for all.
They said over one billion people or approximately 15 per cent of the world’s population live with some form of disability around the world.
In spite of this situation disability has remained largely invisible in the mainstream development agenda that include the health service provider public institutions, they said.
People with disabilities face physical, social, economic and attitudinal barriers to get proper and timely medicare facilities that exclude them from participating fully and effectively as equal members of society, speakers narrated.
-With New Age input
