In the guest column for this week, Tapas Bharadwaj, who is studying law at Amity Law School Delhi, raises some important concerns regarding the lack of access to medical facilities.
People with disabilities have to visit a hospital at one point or another. Primarily, we go there for getting disability certificates and sometimes for treatment. The big question is whether a person with disability approach the hospital or a local health centre on their own? Another thing to be looked at is whether accessible facilities like washrooms, signage and tactile paths are available. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 talks about barrier-free access to hospitals. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, ratified by India in 2007, and forms the basis of the Act, also talks about the equal rights of disabled people and their equal participation in all spheres of life. Over two-and-a-half years after the Act came into force, has the medical sector changed for a person with disability? A close look shows that there is minimum independence in this regard. Read on https://newzhook.com/story/22688 Thanks & Regards Ramya Venkitesh |Head New Initiatives Newz Hook <http://www.newzhook.com/> Newz Hook is now on WhatsApp <https://newzhook.com/whatsapp> Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
