Covid-19 Battle: Persons With Disabilities Call For Inclusion.
By Raymond Dingana Persons with Disabilities in Bamenda say, the fight against covid-19 is not inclusive reasons why they have been facing a lot of difficulties .Speaking to DrayInfos recently, the North West Regional President of the Coordinating Unit of the Associations of Persons with Disabilities, Mr. Fru Chick Sama said, one of the challenges has to do with communication. “ Most of the communication is done without considering the needs of persons with disabilities. For instance, those who have hearing impairment will hardly understand the massage the radio and TV stations are sending out. This is to say that, we need a lot of sign language considerations. A lot of paper work is done on covid-19 prevention but this is hardly considering the needs of persons with visually impairment. Two weeks ago, I called the toll free number, 1510 indicating them, some persons also need to communicate to them using text messages but this service is not open to text messages especially by