New Delhi: After Delhi government announced vaccination for ..journalists at their offices, people with disabilities have demanded that they be vaccinated at home or at separate facilities.
Disabled rights activist Abha Khetarpal said . she was infected with Covid-19 when she went to get vaccinated. “The centre was very crowded. Because of it, my mother also got Covid and she couldn’t take her second dose,” said Khetrapal.
Department of empowerment of persons with disabilities seeks directions to states after the National Federation of the Blind complained that people with visual impairment had to stand in long queues to get tested, vaccinated and get treatment for Covid-19
Following complaints from rights activists and organisations, the department of empowerment of persons with disabilities has requested the Union health ministry to issue directions to states to give priority to people with disabilities in treatment and vaccination for Covid-19.
However, no specific mention is made of special preference to persons with disabilities, though laws relating to them empowers the government to protect their rights, the petitioner pleaded.
PUDUCHERRY: People with blindness and low vision are more vulnerable to Covid-19 infection and have a disadvantage of not receiving sufficient information about the infection, a survey by Aravind Eye Hospital in Puducherry showed.
CHENNAI: The State government on Monday informed the Madras High Court that exclusive counters will be provided for persons with disabilities (PwDs) at Covid vaccination centres across the State. Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy directed the State to take immediate steps to ensure that such counters are accessible to PwDs.
The bench passed the interim order on a PIL moved by Meenakshi Balasubramanian, a disability rights activist, seeking to add disabled persons to the priority group.
A website of the Samagra Shiksha, Kerala, for children with special needs now has over 1,000 videos related to academics and life skills.
Amid dates being set for Class 10 and 12 board examinations, students face countless problems with online classes and studying from home. The situation is even tougher for rural students. In an effort to sighted children of visually-impaired parents in rural areas, a local NGO distributed desktops to them.
Chennai:
For Class VII student Tejasvi Raj, doing his daily homework comes with the double challenge of being a visually impaired student in the COVID-19 era of virtual schooling. His screen reading software can’t access the PowerPoint presentation that his teachers had prepared for online school. E-textbooks provided on the government’s virtual platform DIKSHA, which it has promoted as a transformative resource for digital education, are not fully accessible either.
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