Coronavirus Pandemic
THE Coalition of Humanitarian Organisations in Kaduna has embarked on sensitisation of the physically-challenged persons on strict adherence to the COVID-19 preventive measures.
Mr Haruna Obadiah, the organisation’s Chairman in the state, said investigations had shown that the physically-challenged persons were the worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said that the sensitisation exercise was organised to enlighten leaders of the physically-challenged persons from all the 23 local government areas of the state.
“We have sensitised them so that they can go back and meet their members to raise more awareness on various preventive measures against the virus that is killing several people worldwide,” he said.
Obadiah said that his team was at the rehabilitation centre to create the COVID-19 awareness among those who had been neglected since the outbreak of the virus.
He said that the meeting was an opportunity to engage them, especially the uneducated ones among them as well as the deaf and the dumb, on how to adhere to the NCDC precautionary guidelines.
Earlier in his remarks, Mr Agada Simon, the National President, Life Anchor International, said that the meeting was aimed at discussing the challenges facing the association, with a view to proffering solutions.
Simon said that it was imperative to inform the physically- challenged persons about COVID-19 and the need to safeguard themselves and their family members from the pandemic.
“We want you to know that you are important in the world and that is why God created you. Our job here is to enlighten you about COVID-19.
“This is the first meeting and we will be coming again with some other health experts, specialists and stakeholders.
“Our job is to see that you are also carried along in all issues relating to information dissemination as every other person in the society,” he said.
Responding, Hajiya Hajara Nasiru, the state Chairperson of the Deaf and Dumb Women, thanked the organisation for recognising them as citizens of the state.
Nasiru said that it was obvious that many deaf and dumb were not well-informed about the COVID-19 pandemic and other developments in their communities.
She called on other stakeholders to emulate the organisation’s gesture by making information on COVID-19 available to the physically-challenged persons in rural and urban communities.
In his remarks, the state Chairman of the Albinos, Malam Abubakar Adamu, said that his members were the worst hit due to stigmatization and lack of awareness.
Adamu called on the federal and state governments to always involve the physically-challenged persons in their development plans. (NAN)
– Jun. 5, 2020 @ 15:45 GMT |
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