Pakistan: Shah calls for equal opportunities for the disabled

Karachi: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has assured fullest support to institutions working to rehabilitate intellectually challenged children to make them productive members of the society.

Sindh CM extended assurance to this effect while speaking at a ceremony to inaugurate a display centre in Defence Housing Authority area to showcase the talent of the students enrolled in the Karachi Vocational Training Centre (KVTC) for intellectually challenged people.

The CM appreciated the excellent skills demonstrated by the special students of KVTC in producing fabric products. “I myself is incapable of drawing a straight line on the paper as during my school days I was the weakest student in the subject of Arts or Drawing,” he recalled.

He appreciated the commitment and dedication shown by the faculty to sharpen the vocational skills of the special students of the centre in order to prepare them to compete against the normal children.

“You can find hundreds of thousands of people who are capable of running a normal school but here for such an institute you need people who are committed from their heart to this cause,” he opined.

The CM assured audience of the ceremony that his government would extend maximum support for promoting the institutions like KVTC.

No dearth of money

“All we need are experts capable of running such institutions as there is no dearth of money. Apart from the government, the private sector will provide ample funding whenever it sees that sufficient expertise is available to manage such welfare organisations,” he said.

The CM recalled that his government had already been fully committed to the public health sector of the province.

“The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Karachi is the institution, which performs the maximum number of primary angioplasties under one roof anywhere in the world as all these surgeries are performed free of charge,” he added.