Belisa Jiménez, who raises a voice for the rights of people with disabilities, tells her experience:
If I want to go to the hospital with a beloved one, they tell me that 2 patients can’t go in the ambulance. This response was understandable in 1950, but it is not in 2016.
She declared, in a statement from the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), that as a person with physical damages due to polio, she notices how many people still confuse disability with the disease, when it is just a condition.
Jiménez is an activist from “Leadership in processes related to human rights awareness”, a group from the National Rehabilitation Center (CENARE) and it is participating in the National Week for the Rights of People with Disabilities, which is held at the institution.
Until November 11th, a series of activities, related to the rights of people with disabilities, will be held, both inside and outside the CCSS facilities.