Lack of ramps in buildings affects the disabled

The wrong has become common in many aspects of Dominican life; and the denial of access for the handicapped by lack of ramps in buildings, avenues and commercial spaces is an example of the imposiblidad these people mobilize in the city

This fact has been denounced on many occasions, and in recent years some improvement has been achieved with the adaptation by engineers and architects to building codes that allow and provide facilities for persons with disabilities driving.

Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Santigo, Monsignor Ramón Benito de la Rosa and Carpio, yesterday deplored discrimination against persons with disabilities, by what he considered to be eradicated this practice. are recently, the executive director of the Pro-Bien Foundation, Magino Corporán, said that according to data from the World Health Organization (who) in the country there are more than one u000aa million people with some type of disability.

In his words, the majority of the above are located in marginalized suburban areas and rural areas. This figure should contribute to a better understanding of the situation affecting persons with disabilities. But even so, it is easy to observe buildings which have risen recently, or happened only shortly after his rehabilitation, without prioritization in their tickets for people with disabilities. One of the major drawbacks are disabled at the moment is the step by important avenues as these road works do not have features that allow traffic for those affected. But the avenues are not alone. While access for those with motor difficulties is almost non-existent when it comes to structures built in decades past.

For example, the building of the Ministry of industry and u000aTrade, located in the 27th of February in the capital, does not have ramps to make its staff or any citizen requiring information, to enter to these facilities.

But the same applies to the premises of the branch of the Banco de Reservas, located on the Avenue Winston Churchill. This building is conducive to indicate that the building has an access ramp, but not to the entrance of the Bank. Other buildings such as the Ministry of youth do have facilities for the disabled

Requests to not reject per disabilities
the Archbishop of Santiago stressed the motto of the Cibao patronage of rehabilitation incorporated, which seeks to avoid discrimination either by capabilities that take or disability which may have even.
"This Board of Trustees seeks to integrate its value in people with disabilities, and to get to there, through a service u000a"specialized, these necessary reasons to move forward", he added. The religious stated that with this slogan is invited to think "in that no person may be discriminated against, for any reason".

De la Rosa and Carpio recalled that refers many times to racial discrimination, sex discrimination, but we must also think in discrimination by the disabilities.

"The diversities are necessary, but Ouch!" "when we make differences discrimination, and put them in those people who have a disability," he said.

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