#DisabilityJustice |Co-chair, Int’l Council for Disability Inclusion in MedEd| #DocsWithDisabilities| @MacLeanEthics @BucksbaumInst Fellow| @India_NHRC ♿ member
While examples like Krishna, Meeta & Lokesh in TOI story 👇 show that #NursesWithDisabilities can indeed work in hospitals & may, in fact, show more understanding to patients, hurdles to a nursing career have only increased for other disabled aspirants. 2/
The NMC's controversial #CBME2024 released on 31 Aug, was covered in editorials by major news agencies, discussed on prime-time shows as well as labelled an International embarrassment by foreign media forcing NMC to withdraw it on the Teachers day 2/
📝While the protocol, developed with DEPD & MoHFW, aims to improve disability intervention through early screening, community inclusion & referral support, it contains significant inaccuracies that could lead misinformed screening & M/m of disabilities. #DisabilityAwareness 2/ 
The brochure states that dyslexic candidates need to submit two forms (Appendix XV & XVI). The certificate must mention ‘SEVERE’ under the Dyslexia category to enable the candidate to get the benefit of the disability quota 2/ #NEETUG2022 #Disability 
मतदाता प्रतिशत बढ़ाने के लिए विशेष रूप से मतदाताओं को जागरूक किया जा रहा है।
Dr Sanjay Wadhwa (PMR) & his same team of controversial non-disabled members framed guidelines for #DocsWithDisabilities in PG at AIIMS, Delhi. I wonder if this is the most ableist document ever published in the history of #MedEd in India? #AbleistAIIMS
