Group Wants Free Healthcare Services For Special Needs Children

A group, Give Back the Smile Support Group, has called connected the national authorities and Ebonyi State authorities to supply acquisition and healthcare facilities for radical with peculiar needs and besides marque healthcare services for them free.

In a communique signed by the convener, Mrs. Ogeri Rosemary Idika and the secretary, Dr Anthonia Nwachi, aft evaluating the unfortunate neglect of peculiar needs children successful Ebonyi State, said the surviving conditions of PLWDs successful the authorities are worsened by society’s pretence that they bash not exist.

“The Give Back the Smile Support radical (GBS) is simply a radical of parents with peculiar children. The radical was formed with the intent of putting smiles backmost connected the faces of Special Needs children, their families and caregivers.

“As, we each know, parenting a peculiar request kid is not an casual task, and arsenic specified astir of the parents and caregivers are emotionally stressed astir times owed to the highly demanding needs of their children and wards.

“After the gathering of members of the GBS, it was agreed that we embark connected intensive consciousness run to telephone the attraction of the Government of Ebonyi State to integrate the needs and involvement of children with peculiar needs into the state’s improvement plans.”

She maintained that the conditions of the children are not factored into societal amenities successful the authorities thereby wholly excluding them from having prime life.

“Ebonyi State, person nary nationalist roads that made provisions for question of peculiar needs, ramps are successful precise fewer nationalist buildings. They don’t person immoderate pedestrian span that carter for the needs of peculiar needs people.

“In education, determination are nary peculiar needs school. Even successful the mainstream school, nary proviso for inclusive education. In our antithetic hospitals, they bash not person an occupational therapist oregon code therapist! These are wellness attraction professionals that are precise important successful the attraction of these children.

“It is simply a well-known information that the outgo of caring for children with peculiar needs is truthful precocious owed to the request of aggregate specialists, changeless request for assistive devices and medications.”

The radical stated that each peculiar needs kid has a close to life, a close to education, a close to prime beingness and a close to happiness.