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Issues Affecting the Disabled And Appropriate Solutions To Address Them

During the Nazi rule, the physically and mentally handicapped were set aside for mercy killing. In 1939, Hitler himself passed a degree requiring physicians to carry out mercy killing of patients considered incurable. Today, the new Nazis are those neglectful of the vulnerable persons or suffocate progress of human-life in general and lives of the disabled people in particular.

Society looks at them as forgotten people -whose “best fate” is extinction. In fact, they are nurtured into destitute men and women and sustained to be so by the community -inclusive of the same non-government organisations claiming to be manading their plight. Specifically within the community, the socio-economic and socio-cultural set-up and decision-making can be critically reviewed.

Moving around rural and slum areas can bring back a lot of discoveries. Among them, will be a simple fact of the physically and mentally handicapped having been tied-up on ropes for fear of being raped or stoned to death; are kept in the backyard -for being “not presentable” and above all; “frightening” to visitors or treated like convicted prisoners -whose main activity (physical and mental) is set to receiving food.

But remember, these are human beings -entitled to dignifying treatment and living. They, for example, deserve access and/or right to medical attention, to learning opportunities, to movement (play and exercise), to employment, to appropriate technology (that considers their vulnerability), access to recreational facilities, right to a healthy environment and, to participate in development of their countries. Read more…