Unfriendly toilets force disabled man to pee in bottle

Chennai | Wednesday | 19th September, 2018

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“The floor is slippery, courtrooms cramped, security people are insensitive, and toilets — that are already inaccessible for wheelchairs — are present only on the ground floor. Smitha Sadasivam of the Disability Rights Alliance, said: “I starve the whole day whenever I go to court, as toilets are inaccessible. Chennai: Vijayakumar M shudders at the very thought of visiting the Madras high court , where the wheelchair-bound man is fighting a case. Even if disabled-friendly toilets or ramps are there, no one will ever know their location given the lack of any signage. It will be good if the government makes the entire campus and toilets disabled-friendly,” Vijayakumar told TOI.His is not a lone voice..