Is your home and your Society DISABLED friendly? I am compelled to ask this question to myself and to you also after a recent incidence I heard of my close friend. My friend met with an accident and got both this legs fractured. He was brought back from the hospital on a wheel chair and his nightmare started there. The society he is staying in is not "disabled" friendly.
What does this mean? My friend and his family had a tough time in putting the wheel chair into the elevators as there were 6 steps to his air-conditioned lobby, with no accesss to carry a wheel chair. Being in a plush, new housing complex in Bangalore, the Security Guards and my friend's family had to really sweat it out to carry the wheel chair upto the elevetaor. Finally after an hour long struggle, they made it to the floor where my friend stays. The prblems did not end here. All the flats in the complex were fitted with a granite flooring which made it very slippery for the poor friend to manuover his wheel chair.
This made me ask myself, what if the same thing happens to me tomorrow. Do we have adequate measures to counter such problems? Are we living in a housing complex which takes care of such basic needs rather that having fancy air-conditioned entrance lobbies, high-tech security, etc.
I then, personlly took a stock of where I stay and found that I am fortunate enough to live in a complex which is indeed disabled friendly.
What about you.
