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Murcia now denounces the "total and inadmissible inaccessibility" of the Health Center of Los Garres (04/06/2018)

At the back of the health center there is an entrance with no stairs to the office, "but to get to that door you have to enter a street without sidewalks for pedestrians and with traffic"

The vowel of Now Murcia in the municipal council of the Garres will present / display in the Plenary session of the municipal meeting, tomorrow, a motion in which it urges the City council to that the Law of Accessibility is fulfilled "in a public building so important as it is a center of health"

"It is hard to imagine a more inaccessible entrance for people with disabilities or with reduced mobility than that of the health center of Los Garres", affirm from Now Murcia.

The training denounces that "this disastrous situation is taking place in a building that, moreover, is public, and far from being any building, is a health center, which by definition older people and with reduced mobility, others with some physical disability, etc. "

The vowel of Now Murcia in the municipal council of Los Garres, Isabel Fuentes, points out that "the main entrance to the parish office consists of two sections of steep stairs and does not have the necessary structures to facilitate access to people with limited mobility, wheelchairs or baby carts, flagrantly violating the basic requirements of accessibility ".

Fuentes explains that in the back of the health center there is an entrance with no stairs to the office, "but to get to that door you have to enter a street without sidewalks for pedestrians, with traffic and slope, all of which forces In addition, it is an entrance designed primarily for the entry and exit of vehicles, with only a door that is barely as wide as a wheelchair and that is often closed ".

Faced with this situation, the member will present a motion in the Plenary of the municipal board tomorrow, urging the City Council to comply with the Accessibility Law "in a public building as important as a health center".

Now Murcia spokeswoman, Alicia Morales, recalls that the training has been "since 2016 demanding the development by the City Council of the Municipal Accessibility Plan that finally now, 2 years later, is in the drafting stage."

The councilor emphasizes "the duty of administrations to ensure the accessibility of all people to the different buildings of the municipality, with special attention to public buildings and those who provide health or education services."

Source: Ahora Murcia

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