Organizations representing people with disabilities demand to guarantee the “right to health” and “health care” of this group on the occasion of the National Day of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which is celebrated next 3 of May.
Thus, the Committee of Representative Organizations of Persons with Disabilities of Galicia (CERMI Galicia) requires fully guaranteeing “the human right to health” of all persons with disabilities, “without discrimination or exceptions and with a gender focus”, and joins this year’s manifesto focused on the right to health without discrimination in the face of the crisis unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The objective of the commemoration is to contribute to the knowledge, dissemination and awareness of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its principles, values and mandates, extending “the culture and practice of human rights in the sphere of people with disabilities. ”
The manifesto denounces “any practice, recommendation or clinical policy that discriminates against people with disabilities in access to health care and health services (in this case COVID-19 treatments), because it will never be repeated enough that all human lives have the same value and dignity. ”
Thus, the committee warns of the situation of elderly people with disabilities, “who are suffering this pandemic in their own flesh in a more virulent way and whose human rights are not only being questioned, but denying in the most ruthless way, in favor of an alleged efficiency of the system, given the scarcity of resources and the high pressure of care. ”
On the other hand, it demands that the gender perspective presides over the management of this crisis, in which women and girls with disabilities are included and that they incorporate actions that protect mothers and caregivers, “so that this emergency does not have an excessive repercussion in them: for health, for gender violence and for taking care of others”.
