Southern Regional Association of Blind and Partially Sighted of Angola (ARSCAA) Friday in Lubango, southern Huila province, has called for the need to find specific biosafety mechanisms for the people with vision impairment, ahead of back-to-school plan.
The concern was presented by ARSCAA Management Committee coordinator, Manuel Rodrigues, stating that because of the lack of vision, vision impaired people have their hands as a means of compensation and touch everything.
He stressed that since the hand is one of the means that lead to covid-19 contamination, blind people are exposed to the disease.
"A visually impaired person should be accompanied by a family member to his school. But he will need the help of other colleagues to move around, so he is unable to maintain physical distancing with his colleagues," he stressed.
He explained that the stigma of colleagues in not wanting to touch a blind person on school grounds or in other places, due to suspect to catch Covid-19, is another factor that can hinder the stability of this group of students with special needs.
He said that the association also agree that classes should restart, but it calls for the need to monitoring the process of creation of biosafety conditions to receive visually impaired students and teachers.
ARSCAA controls over 900 members, with 350 members in Huila province.
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