{"id":148,"date":"2011-07-18T04:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T04:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/eyecarecaribbean\/2011\/07\/18\/consider-us-disabled-community-laments-lack-of-inclusion-in-disaster-mitigation-plans\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T04:23:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T04:23:56","slug":"consider-us-disabled-community-laments-lack-of-inclusion-in-disaster-mitigation-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/latest-news\/consider-us-disabled-community-laments-lack-of-inclusion-in-disaster-mitigation-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Consider us&#8217; &#8211; Disabled community laments lack of inclusion in disaster-mitigation plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Jamaica Association for Persons with Intellectual  Disabilities is calling for greater consideration of the needs of  members of the disabled community in mitigation planning for instances  of natural disaster.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is an urgent need for the  involvement of people with disabilities and other vulnerable populations  to ensure equal access to disaster response and relief,&#8221; declared  Commander Michael Rodriquez.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriquez, who was representing  members of the disabled community at a Disaster Management Symposium and  Information Fair in Portmore, St Catherine, on Saturday, said:  &#8220;Individuals with disabilities &#8230; are disproportionately vulnerable in  (times of) emergencies, and face numerous challenges accessing resources  for response and recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the Government needs to look  at and eliminate all the barriers that could prevent people with  disabilities and other vulnerable groups from the provision of services  in times of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emergency preparedness drills should  include real participation of people with disabilities,&#8221; he added, while  also noting that simulation exercises where able-bodied persons take  the role of disabled people should be avoided.<\/p>\n<p> Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/gleaner\/20110711\/lead\/lead5.html\">Jamaica Gleaner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamaica Association for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities is calling for greater consideration of the needs of members of the disabled community in mitigation planning for instances of natural disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}