Wednesday 8th January, 2020
By
Hannah Awadzi, GNA
Accra, Jan. 8, GNA –
The Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ms Freda
Prempeh, has tasked a technical committee reviewing Ghana’s Disability Law to
make provisions that mandates all health facilities to have sign language
interpreters.
She said Deaf
persons usually have a hard time communicating with medical staff when they go
to seek medical treatment because of the language barrier, which sometimes
results in preventable death.
Ms Prempeh made the
suggestion when she joined the members of the technical committee at one of
their meetings, where they were reviewing the amendments made to the Law.
She also reminded
the committee to ensure that they put in place laws which were implementable to
avoid having a law which will not be implemented.
A Technical
Committee was set up by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection
with the support of the National Council on Persons with Disabilities to review
the Disability Law as it is, to make it compliant with the United Nations Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
GNA
