Buryatia authorities will move to the first floor for the convenience of disabled

In Buryatia is home to about 1.9 thousand guests in wheelchairs who are affected by a lack of fitness of the surrounding infrastructure. Since 1988, when in Ulan-Ude, built the first ramp in front of the Ministry of Social Protection of the Republic, only about a thousand built ramps. In Buryatia, the law, which requires in the construction of objects and their reconstruction to take into account accessibility for disabled people. "All state and municipal authorities should consider the solution to this problem: elevators, we can not do, but you need to move the service on the first floor, persons with disabilities have access to them" – said the head of the republic. Nagovitsyn instructed the government of the Republic to develop a plan to ensure barrier-free environment. As the representative of the press service of the republic, the capital of Buryatia is one of the leading cities in Russia to create a barrier-free environment for disabled people in rural areas, the problem is not solved so successfully. In Ulan-Ude, about a thousand stores, pharmacies and other facilities in Ulan-Ude, equipped with ramps, the city is open "library without Barriers", the urban routes served by six buses with a special mechanism for planting for the disabled – wheelchairs, acts of social service taxi. In 2009, opened a special house for wheelchair users, has become one of the best in Russia. This summer, the city Kyakhta opened a new school which is fully accessible to inclusive education – are installed elevators, ramps, lifts and other equipment. In July, on Lake Baikal in the village Tankhoy volunteers and staff of the Baikal reserve equipped with the first 200 meters of a special trail for wheelchair users, to make them available for people with disabilities a unique natural nooks Baikal coast, said the spokesman. All Regional News