Infrastructural inaccessibility is preventing persons leaving with disability from adhering to the Covid-19 precautionary measures, a new study reveals. According to the research by Ulemavu Research Institute dubbed ‘Disability and Covid-19’, some disabled people find wash sinks too high among other conditions arising from their impairment. “We have the knowledge but the infrastructure is a great challenge to those with a physical disability and the blind. He adds that the guidelines on keeping social distance and avoiding touching surfaces are impossible in a country where infrastructure barely favors the disabled. For David, the current structures are a barrier for persons living with disabilities in the fight against the virus leaving them feeling segregated.

Source: The Star December 06, 2020 17:26 UTC