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Nicaragua to Improve Situation of the
Disabled
MANAGUA - Nicaraguan government will
launch on Thursday a program of attention to
people with disabilities that were
practically abandoned by the 16- year
liberal government, announced Coordinator of
the Council of Communication and Citizenship
Rosario Murillo.
Murillo disclosed that on Thursday
afternoon, International Day of Disabled
Persons, a work program to guarantee better
conditions to these persons will be
presented in the seat of the government.
We are going to remodel the centers of
disabled children and adults. There are
around six or seven centers in the country
and starting tomorrow we are going to deal
with them directly from the presidency, she
said.
Murillo greeted the members of the
Cuban-Nicaraguan brigade "Todos con voz",
which is studying disability in Nicaragua
door by door.
In Nicaragua, 68 Cuban specialists along
with Nicaraguan health staff are carrying
out an investigation on people with some
type of disability to improve their life
conditions.
Mayor of Matagalpa department, in the north
of the capital, Zaldrach Zeledón reported
that Cuban doctors visited 15 000 houses and
diagnosed 8 500 cases, from them 150 are
very serious and are already receiving
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