Information kiosks for disabled people set up in Delhi hospitals: India
New Delhi, June 29: Kiosks providing information on various
disabilities such as cerebral palsy and autism to disabled
people and their families have been set up in six hospitals in the
national capital.
The pilot project is an initiative of an NGO, Media Lab Asia, with the
central government's Department of Information Technology and the
National Trust, a statutory body under the ministry of social justice
and empowerment.
Shankarnath Goswami, the managing director of Media Lab Asia, said these
kiosks are meant to provide benefits to those who deserve these the most.
'Information holds the key to knowledge, and this initiative of Media
Lab Asia aims to enable and empower persons with disabilities to manage
their disabilities better," Goswami said.
The kiosks provides pamphlets giving information on various disabilities,
schemes for persons with such disabilities, contact numbers and
addresses of associations run by parents for persons with disabilities,
help–lines and NGOs working on these issue.
They also give information on user friendly speech–based interactive
system, numerical key–based simple and easy customized operation and
audio–based help.
The kiosks have been set up in the psychiatry department of Ram Manohar
Lohia and Safdarjung hospitals, in Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, Lok Nayak
Jai Prakash (Irwin) Hospital, Institute of Human Behaviour and Applied
Sciences (IHBAS) and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
Depending on their popularity, these kiosks may be set up in other
hospitals as well, officials said.
Source: http://www.thaindian.com/
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