The slope for disabled persons at Naval Hospital in Islamabad could have been used for practising ski jumping.
ISLAMABAD: This is in response to the story “Junoon: Not disabled, but differently abled” published in The Express Tribune on November 25. Having visited some developed countries, it amazed me to see that through building and zoning legislation, all buildings are required to have ramps for wheelchair-bound people and also special washrooms that could be accessed by them on every floor. This is regardless of whether any physically challenged individual actually works in those buildings.
Many years ago, I had the misfortune of taking my mother to the Naval Hospital in Islamabad for treatment. On the main entrance, the slope for the wheelchair was so steep that it took four people to hold on to the wheelchair to bring it safely down the slope. In fact, if it snowed in Pakistan, the slope could have been used for practising ski jumping.
If that is the condition at ‘planned’ hospitals, one should not be surprised at the lack of such facilities in other places.
A Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, November 26th, 2013.
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