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On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 12:43 PM Ramya Venkitesh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > 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.. > > Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] 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..
