Collaboration of health care professionals, academics and interest
groups working for the disabled is necessary to sensitise the public to
issues faced by disabled people, a health ministry official said
Saturday.
"More collaboration between health care professionals, academics, and
interest groups engaged in the problems of disabled people will go a
long way in ensuring that everyone is adequately sensitised to the
differently-abled," said Poonam K. Singh, advisor (international
health), in the ministry of health and family welfare.
Singh was speaking at a one-day symposium which discussed various
disability issues like barriers that accentuate disabling conditions,
advocacy efforts in rehabilitation and promotion of disability studies
within health care.
Elaborating on the importance of disability studies, A.K. Mukherjee, director general, Indian Spinal Injuries Centre (ISIC) said, "Everybody needs to be properly sensitised on disability issues in order to help the differently abled populace live their lives fully and improve the country's health care indicators."
According to experts, globally there are 500-650 million disabled
people, which means that one person in ten faces a disability. By 2015,
this figure is expected to rise to around 800 million, making people
with disabilities the largest minority group in the world.
Source : Business Standard , 15th June 2013
Source : Business Standard , 15th June 2013
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