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| Councilor Esther Nevado warns that the fact that these patients carry an ostomy bag to evacuate their waste has a great impact on their quality life that often prevents them from going out on the street | The accessibility of public spaces is one of the key points on which the modernity of a city is based.

Neglecting accessibility implies, in most cases, discriminating against social groups with mobility or other problems, who will not be able to make use of what is public like the rest of their neighbors.

Therefore, the Municipal Socialist Group for the sake of better care and assistance to ostomized people will demand from the Plenary that at least one bathroom be adapted in all municipal buildings and the possibility of urgent parking is studied so that these people can go to a bathroom without risk to be fined. Councilor Esther Nevado, who wants this motion to be supported by all the groups represented in the City Council, explains that this group carries an ostomy bag to evacuate their organic waste, “something that has a great impact on their quality of life and Murcians affected coexist with this circumstance on a daily basis, under the law of silence ”.

It also clarifies that ostomized people lack voluntary control of evacuations, so "the absence in public toilets of suitable conditions to empty the bags and take care of the hygiene of the stoma is a serious problem that only those who suffer from it".Daily situations such as entering a public toilet to relieve themselves become a daily penalty for these people, since, currently, they do not have optimal hygiene conditions in order to be able to change and dispose of the bag, as well as to carry out cleaning the affected area before putting on a new device.Likewise, according to Nevado, “the absolute fear of having a leak prevents them, more times than we think, from going out on the street like anyone else, because one of the great difficulties they face is not having adapted public toilets ”.As explained by the different associations of affected people throughout the national territory, they only need a built-in drain in the public toilets, located about 75-80 cm from the ground, with a cistern and siphon, a clean table to change the device, a mirror, a water point with a shower to wash the bag, soap and toilet paper, the cost of all being an affordable amount.For the councilor, “we must not allow people who cannot use a toilet in decent conditions and their disability limits the development of their life in society.

We understand that for the right to equality to be made effective as recognized by our legal system, public administrations must promote the necessary measures so that the exercise in equal conditions of the rights of people with disabilities is real and effective ”.

Source: PSOE Murcia