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The liberal party has met with Multiple Sclerosis in Cartagena and the region to collect their main demands and needs, "we have transferred all their proposals and complaints to the regional party leadership, and to public administrations," says Manuel Padín

One of the main claims of Multiple Sclerosis of Cartagena and District (EMACC) is the implementation of a Comprehensive Center for Multiple Sclerosis Care, ELA, and related neurodegenerative diseases, for which there is even a blueprint created by an architect as informed the president of the collective, María de los Ángeles Palacios, who reports that at this moment they are "requesting and looking for municipal land and financing routes for its construction".

The spokesman of Cs Cartagena, Manuel Padín has met with the heads of EMACC in the facilities that this association has in the La Milagrosa Building.

On the occasion of the upcoming municipal elections, this group has begun a round of contacts with all the political groups of Cartagena to share their work with them, and to make them reach their demands and needs.

Citizens has been the first to accept the invitation of this association that represents and serves about 500 families in their area of ​​action;

at the meeting was present, in addition to the president and spokesperson of Cs, the social worker, Miriam Conesa.

Accessibility in Cartagena, a pending task

One of the most recurrent demands of the City Council, the Community and the State is that they work in an active way for universal accessibility in the municipality, by adapting public buildings;

In this sense, EMACC highlights the "incredible" situation of the Labor Disability Assessment Unit of the National Social Security Institute (INSS) on Caridad Street that is not accessible to people in wheelchairs (one door and three large steps give access to it) and the impossibility of carrying out any management in the Treasury Building.

Other demands, that Cs has committed to take this year, is that the Local Police have agents trained in Disability Care, as they already exist in other cities, "so that they become a true reference for the relative complaints to non-compliance with current regulations ".

The president of EMACC claims the City Council more vigilance in the use of parking cards for people with reduced mobility (PMR), subject the shops to greater control to adapt their access, a progressive and prioritized plan for the curbs of the sidewalks at zero level and the elimination of the streetlights that impede the passage (for example those of the avenue Víctor Beltrí), and the promotion of the adapted public transport (ramps that do not work and companies that do not bother to fix them during months and even years) .

EMACC calls for more support from public administrations, "for the hiring of personnel to help maintain the services we offer, facilitate bureaucratic procedures and redirect subsidies for the preparation of equality plans, prevention of occupational risks, management of the quality or data protection since in many occasions they end up only in the hands of the big entities, discriminating the work of the small and medium associations ", explained the president of EMACC.

In addition, they ask that the bureaucratic relation be facilitated, "for example, to avoid unnecessary displacements to people who have it very difficult", explains Manuel Padín

Without phone and without internet

During his visit, the Citizen spokesman was able to verify that this group, which is only supported by three professionals on the payroll and with the support of the team of volunteers, is trying to carry out its work in a space of La Milagrosa "that has been weeks without Internet connection and without a telephone, to this we must add problems with heating, lighting and space;

it seems to me that these are not the conditions that deserve a model collective that makes magic with what little they have ".

"We have already transferred all of his proposals to the regional leadership of the party, and his denunciations to the public administrations involved," Padín concludes.

At regional level

Citizens has denounced that there are still many public buildings in different parts of the Region of Murcia that have not been adapted to the guidelines of the Universal Accessibility Law, despite the fact that its deadline for completion came to an end a year and a half ago. that have not been adapted to the new law are the headquarters of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture or the Territorial Management of Justice.

"I hope that the City will comply with the ordinance and that the regional government will correct this situation as soon as possible because it not only harms people with disabilities, but also the law is being broken," concludes Manuel Padín.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena