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| Tunaweza Women with Disabilty Executive Director Charity Chahasi in (blue dress) flanked by other PWD's. PHOTO (file) |
By Peter Kombe
A section of the
disability community in Mombasa County has accused the county government on
claims of failing to access the National Hospital Insurance Fund initiative
offered by the National government.
Speaking to the press
in Mombasa on Saturday, Tunaweza Women
with Disability Executive Director Charity
Chahasi said the county government has been evangelizing on the same but no
action taken.
“We have not been
included in the national security fund initiative. We are only see county
officials from the health department speaking about this during meetings” she
noted
She pointed that the county government has been reluctant in including the
disabled in the government initiative.
Chahasi further noted that people living with disability require closer medical
attention noting that it should be spread out to all PWD’s.
“The county government has been so reluctant about this. No PWD’s have
been included” the chief executive officer stated
At the same time he
said county governments of have a sole responsibility checking into the welfare
of Kenyans.
She also called on the
national council of people living with disability to scrape off the assessment charges
to the disabilities.
“Again I want to NCPWD
to scrape off the assessment charges, because this we do not all PWD’s need
assessment”
Late last year, Mkalla
Shanga, a Mombasa based activist further accused the county government of
failing to address PWD’s challenges.
He says the infrastructural
frame work ongoing in the entire county has failed to address the disability
plight”
The human rights
defender indicated that most of the public utilities in the county are not accessible
to PWDs.
He added “the
facilities lack ramps giving PWD's an extremely strenuous exercise when going
about their business in central business district"
Mkalla put the county government
to task saying that PWDs pay taxes to the government.
Attempts to speak to the county health officials bore no fruit.
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