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People with disabilities: SPD wants to make wheelchair ramps and assistance compulsory

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SPD wants to make wheelchair ramps and assistance compulsory

The day of protest for equality for disabled people was launched in 1992. photo

© Daniel Maurer/dpa

Steps, stairs, narrow spaces – not all cinemas and other public facilities are barrier-free. The SPD in the Bundestag announces improvements.

The The SPD in the Bundestag wants to make provisions for people with disabilities, such as wheelchair ramps in cinemas, more compulsory. During the current electoral period, it should be achieved that private providers are obliged to provide a ramp into the cinema, for example, said the deputy SPD parliamentary group leader Dagmar Schmidt of the German Press Agency in Berlin. To this end, the Disability Equality Act should be reformed, said Schmidt. Today, cinemas generally do not have to have wheelchair access, except for new buildings and renovations.

Schmidt commented on the European Day of Protest for Equality for People with Disabilities this Sunday. The day of protest for equality for disabled people was launched in 1992. People with disabilities and their associations campaign for legal equality and inclusion.

Schmidt announced that further focus should be on reducing barriers in healthcare. “It cannot and must not be the case that people with disabilities experience restrictions in their access to medical services due to a lack of accessibility.” Even 15 years after the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, full inclusion is still an unfinished mission. Schmidt advocated that barriers be broken down in all areas of life.