Gorkha, Sept 11: The Shahid Lakhan Rural Municipality has distributed and renewed disability identity cards to the people living with disability reaching their doorsteps.
Vice-chairperson of the rural
municipality Indira Tiwari said that the rural municipality has mobilized
doctors, staff and people's representatives to distribute disability identity
cards for the convenience of the disabled people.
"The rural municipality aims
to ensure that no people with disability are deprived of the services provided
by the State", she said.
A team comprising Medical Officer
of Gorkha Hospital, Santosh Sitaula and Chief of the rural municipality's
health section, Birendra Shrestha reached the houses of the disabled people to
distribute identity cards.
"A medical report is mandatory
to provide disability ID card and doctors have also been mobilized for the
same", the deputy mayor shared.
According to her, 233 people with
disability have been provided services in the municipality. The rural municipality
sources said new disability identity cards have been distributed to nine more
people and 224 people have been renewed. RSS