Gonzalo herman
09/09/2021 12:21
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 09/09/2021 12:21
The Department of Attention to People with Disabilities and the Elderly Fuegian, located in Ushuaia, has an
unusual failure
that generated the complaint and anger of many relatives of people with mobility problems: that building, where procedures related to this condition are carried out, it does not have appropriate accesses for them.
Graciela Bravo, whose daughter has cerebral palsy, was one of the first to shout to the sky after seeing the incredible error in the entrance of the secretariat.
He
told
Clarín
that he could not believe that the same place where "supposedly they should help improve the city for our disabled children,
does not comply with the accessibility law
that we managed to pass after years of struggle."
Graciela discovered the unusual oversight a few weeks ago, when she went to that secretariat - which depends on the Government - to carry out a procedure for her daughter, María Macarena Rosales.
"I went to get the school bus ticket for my daughter. And when I arrive I see with horror that to enter the building you
had to climb an eight-step staircase
. I could not believe my eyes. I did not understand how the place that was supposed to defend the rights of people with disabilities, do not have the most elements: adequate access ".
The access door is at the end of an eight-step staircase.
According to her, the secretariat was in another place and
two months ago they moved it to the current building
.
"Where it is now there was a private dance hall. I don't understand how they didn't fix the accesses before moving there. I complained many times, but they always tell me the same thing: that they are going to fix it, but they never do."
That was also the
official response
to
Clarín's
query
: that "work is being done" to correct the problem and
a lateral access with a ramp will be added
.
"The stair railing is being worked and the ramp is being worked on. But it is not yet enabled.
We had to move abruptly and now we have to adapt the building,
" justified the secretary of Attention to People with Disabilities and the Elderly provincial, Omar De Luca.
Graciela's anger was such that the same day she discovered this unusual failure, she expressed her outrage on social networks: "Today, a while ago, I went to the new Disability Secretariat in Ushuaia, and personally verified that both the governor, the vice , the Disability Secretary, the engineers,
nobody thought that people with disabilities generally attend that building
. There is a staircase to enter the building !!!!! Yes, a staircase without ramps, or anything that implies providing a little bit of security to those who want I don't think the door has measures for a wheelchair either and it also has a small step. "
"This gives me a lot, a lot of powerlessness, years ago with other parents, we worked so that the rights of people with disabilities are fulfilled and even today we have this
lack of empathy from officials,
" claimed Bravo, who recalled that in the campaign the mayor and the governor had promised him a rehabilitation center.
"Lies !!!! If even part of the public hospital caught fire !!!!!", she wrote indignantly.
The Disability Secretariat moved two months ago and the ramps have not yet been installed.
And he added: "For many years we have been working on this voluntarily, we trained, we read, we managed to get the province to adhere to Law 24901, at our suggestion the rank of Disability Secretariat was given, we know what we do and demand. And now the Disability Secretariat has an inaccessible building !!!!! Shame !!!!! "
Soledad, another mother of the group, also said that in the city there are no accesses for people with disabilities in general and that
public transport is not prepared for them either
.
"The municipality has three special combis to transport these people. Nothing more. That is the only thing there is," he says.
Patricia Marquez is also angry. His daughter, Macarena Márquez, has spina bifida (myelo meningocele) and also suffers from accessibility problems. "
The elevators in most schools do not work.
In my daughter's school I had to fight for a year and a half to get it fixed so that she can use it. They receive the buildings and they do not finish them well. It is not understood how not they realize. Obviously they don't care. "
Regarding the Disability Secretariat, he was also very forceful: "It is a shame. It is a joke that it does not have access for people with disabilities. When I go to do a procedure they tell you 'If you want to come in and I'll stay outside taking care of your daughter '. I force them to bring people to bring my daughter in anyway; to make them ashamed.
Inclusion in Ushuaia is pure poster because there isn't any
".
Health is another problem.
"There are no doctors or specialists in Ushuaia for people with disabilities. They are all in Buenos Aires. Nor is there a rehabilitation center. When you ask why, they tell you that there is no budget, that it cannot be done. This is how we live in this city." , he claims.
Another mother, Majo, remarks that Ushuaia, being built near the mountains, is
a complex city for people with disabilities
.
"Due to the topography in general we have accessibility problems. I have not met municipal ordinances for years. Most businesses and public buildings are not accessible to people with disabilities, such as the Legislature and the Government House, for example."
The official response
De Luca
denied these claims
and assured that "there is a rehabilitation center on 1155 Wulaia Street, which cares for children and adults. And then we have done in the course of the pandemic: in Rio Grande we have a center for children with childhood neurodevelopmental disorders and we also have care centers for the elderly in the three big cities. "
In addition, he assured that he is building a new 3,500-square-meter rehabilitation center with a therapeutic pool, two gyms, the certification board, adapted transport and 28 hospital beds.
Regarding the demand for mobility, he pointed out that they have "five vehicles to transport people with wheelchairs", but he acknowledged that in Ushuaia there is no public transport for this population and he
blamed the company that manages the groups
because "it did not adapt them" . He added that a modification was made to a provincial law that obliges combis that make intercity transfers to transport people with disabilities.
Regarding the claim for access ramps in public buildings, he assured that "much work is being done to have more access in all public buildings."
And particularly about the one that the Disability Secretariat needs, he explained that they already have the plans to make the ramp but they
require the permission of the owner of the place where they rent to do it
.
"If he does not let us, we will have to put an access elevator," he acknowledged.
One of the rehabilitation center that the provincial government has in Tierra del Fuego.
"We are doing a lot. But we are still walking. It costs a lot to walk because
when we finish one problem another begins
. We do it as best we can, to the best of our ability. There are things that are not yet seen but we carry on with a lot of work," he said.
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