The treaty will make access to books for the visually impaired, blind and print disabled easier

Right from architectural barriers in hospital buildings to inaccessible medical equipment, from insensitive doctors to negligent authorities, access to healthcare facilities for the huge invisible population of disabled people in the capital is abysmally difficult.

Low-rise urinals with grab bars. Doors with lever-action locks. Bright colour-bands on edges of stairs. Ramps with the right slope. This is part of the wish list for making access in hospitals easy for people with disabilities.

Music icon Stevie Wonder, last week lent his weight to a video appeal about a famine addressing more than 600 delegates gathered at a United Nations forum in North Africa. But it wasn’t the sort of famine that has all too often afflicted parts of the African continent. Instead Wonder, in his own words, “Let’s get this ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered (and) I’m Yours’,” was urging a UN forum in Marrakesh, Morocco to finalize a new global treaty to provide greater access to books for the blind, the visually impaired and other print disabled people.