Public institutions tasked to provide disability friendly facilities to physically challenged

Parliament has charged the Ministry of Health to take immediate steps to engage the services of sign language interpreters at Health Institutions and provide other disability friendly facilities to adequately offer health services to the physically challenged.

Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies have also been reminded to ensure that all existing and new public buildings are made disability friendly.

These were raised on the Floor of the House when the MPs made statements to mark the International Day of Persons with Disability.

The First Deputy Speaker, Ebow Barton-Odro who made the first statement said existing public institutions must immediately make alterations to their buildings to make them disability friendly.

GBC