Quito, 3 mar (EFE).-the Vice-President of Ecuador, LenÃn Moreno, will present the program “Manuela Espejo” in favour of persons with disabilities in this Andean nation to the World Bank (WB) and the Organization of American States (OAS), and it is replicated in several countries of Latin America, it was reported today.
Moreno will be in the United States.UU. between 6 and 10 March, with technicians from the mission “Manuela Espejo”, reported the Vice Presidency in a statement.
On 7 March Moreno will meet in Washington with the Permanent Council of the OAS to expose the Ecuadorian model of care to persons with disabilities.
Addition, initiate contacts with the World Bank through meetings which will hold with Veronica Queen, representative of the Global Fund for disabilities of the Bank to deal with the regional proposal for comprehensive care to people with disabilities by applying the Ecuadorian model.
Will then meet Wahida Hug, who heads the Japanese cooperation of the World Bank Fund, for details of the mobility project for people with disabilities.
On 8 March will expose the program “Manuela Espejo” authorities of the Bank, representatives of social organizations and institutions working for and for disability United States.
Will explain the way in which the Ecuador Government initiated the mission to support 294,000 persons with disabilities were registered by the medical brigades after visiting more than one million households in the country’s 24 provinces.
Will subsequently participate in the panel on rights of persons with disabilities and public liability, which will expose the role of public policy to promote an inclusive society and the Ecuadorian experience.
El 9 March would meet in New York with Ecuadorian migrants and will focus on comprehensive care to persons with disabilities through “Manuela Espejo” in that country.
Prior to this meeting a medical Brigade “Manuela Espejo” moved to New York “to attend and register in the computer system of the mission to a hundred of people with disabilities living in precarious conditions in the United States.”UU. “for its quality of migrants”, the statement said.
The medical study carried out between 22 and 27 February recommended surrender “as soon as” 157 technical aid to 28 people with disabilities “which are at regrettable situation”, adds the statement.
Programme “Manuela Espejo”, released in 2009, has made the first census of persons with disabilities in Ecuador, totaling 294.000, according to the Secretary general of the Vice-Presidency, Armando hunt.
The Government has delivered 300,000 technical aids such as wheelchairs and crutches since then.
The Government of Ecuador also has launched the program “JoaquÃn Gallegos Lara” to help 15,000 people with severe physical or intellectual disabilities.
In addition to attending the affected, project gives the babysitter $240 per month.
On 7 March the Vice-President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, will meet in Washington with the Permanent Council of the OAS to expose the Ecuadorian model of care to persons with disabilities. EFE/file
