“We realize that we have to be constantly improving, looking for new solutions to the problems that we detect and participation of those who are directly involved in the subject we feel great because there can know what mistakes can be corrected and how go forward, “Telam said the Minister of Health of the Nation, Daniel Gollan.
The head of the health portfolio described that” in this decade we have quadrupled the number of people with non-contributory pensions, which have gone from a 24,000 to a million and a half, and has increased 11 times people with disability certificate, which went from 72000-740000. “
Among the difficulties that people with disabilities face, Gollán he mentioned “the problems of accessibility for circulation. For example, in the City of Buenos Aires the sidewalks are broken and there are no ramps at all corners.”
He also mentioned the lack of access to labor quotas . “7 percent of people who are employed should be persons with disabilities and this is not fulfilled by the employers, who avoid taking”
“There is a prejudice about this about that people with disabilities are going to pay less, which is absolutely false, indeed, it is evidence that in many areas work are more productive than those with other capabilities, “the official said.
Here, said that “we must keep working on awareness and we must continue demanding that they comply with the legal guidelines.”
He added that “disability is a forgotten issue for many policy areas today They constitute the opposition; do not forget that they have been government on other occasions and had so few people had access during those years his rights because he was armed so they could not. “
For his part, Undersecretary of Youth, Facundo Tignanelli said that “we must devise public policies listening to the other and you tell us,’esto right, this is wrong, this will falta’. Because officials are not illuminated by any means, have the best intentions, we have the will, we have the conviction and, as I said Nestor, are ordinary men with different responsibilities. Then from there, we come here today to listen, to learn and to know what are the things we still need to make and change “are.
Also present at the opening of the conference, the president of the National Advisory Commission for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities (CONADIS), Silvia Bersanelli, stressed the importance of the meeting and encouraged those present to “organize and fight for their rights. “
” It is important they know their rights, to defend them, to participate and to demand to build an ever more inclusive society, “he said.
The meeting, entitled “National Conference for the Promotion of Rights of Persons with Disabilities”, is carried out in Hall of Science, in Technopolis, and brings together some 500 people from different parts of the country.
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