Participants in a volunteer training programme conducted by the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed in Barisal city urged for extending coordinated medicare facilities as a right for the disabled persons on Sunday. The centre manager, Mahmudul Hassan Al Imam, also a physiotherapist, chaired the programme held at Barisal ARDRID-CRP centre in the city.Clinical speech and language therapist Abdur Rahman, divisional coordinator of social based rehabilitation of CRP under the Integrated Disability and Livelihood Project Jotishko Biswas, and UNICEF child protection official Momiunnesa Shikha conducted the training participated in by 50 volunteers from different sections of society.
The trainers highlighted the developments and obstacles in implementing disability-sensitive policies, as well as promoted public awareness to break barriers and open doors for constructing an inclusive society.
They said approximately 15 per cent of the world’s population live with disabilities.
But disability remained almost invisible in the mainstream development agendas and processes including the health service providing public institutions, they alleged.
The disabled people face physical, social, economic and attitudinal discrimination that violate their rights to getting proper medicare facilities as other members of society, the discussants observed.
In an interactive discussion, the trainees called for practical and coordinated action to include the disabled people in all development aspects of the health service providing institutions and to inspire their participation in social life on the basis of equality.
They also vowed to volunteer the CRP initiatives to raise awareness about the rights of disabled people as a significant fact of development issues and promote accessibility, remove all types of barriers, and to realise the full coordinated consultations for equal participation of disabled persons in the society and shape the future of development for all.
-With New Age input
