A day-long workshop jointly organized by National Forum Working with Disabled (NFOWD) and Welfare Organization for the Rural Disabled (WORD) was held On Monday at the conference room of DC of Faridpur, reports BSS.
Funded by Save the Children, the workshop was arranged to create awareness among people for establishing the rights of the disabled people as well as to ensure their security in the society in light of the prevailing law.
The workshop was chaired by NFOWD president Saidul Haque while ADC (Gen) Dr. ANM Abdus Sabur was present as the chief guest. Secretary General of NFOWD Mizanur Rahman moderated the workshop.
Coordinator of NFOWD Mosharraf Hossain presented the keynote paper.  Mosharraf in his paper discussed about various types of disabilities. He said so far around 14,88,000 people with disabilities have been identified while the prevalence rate is 9.7 percent in the country. In Faridpur district around 25,000 disabled people have been identified, he added.
In his paper he mentioned about twelve types of disabilities prevailing in the country. They are autism, physical disability, mental illness leading to disabilities, visual disability, speech disability, intellectual disability, hearing disability, deaf-blindness, cerebral palsy, down-syndrome, multiple disability and other disability.
Mosharraf Hossain said the present government has formulated various laws for the protection and security of disabled children and women. The government has also provided financial assistances for the disabled persons.
However, the government alone cannot provide favorable environment for the disabled people if the mass people do not come forward for their welfare, he added.
Mosharraf said there are about 40 One stop crisis cell (OCC) at General hospitals and 20 OCC at upazila hospitals of the country for the treatment of the disabled children and women. He said, adding physicians can play an important role to reduce the sufferings of the disabled people.