Lift for wheelchair-bound MPs and visitors ready: The Star – June 12, 2009
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Lift for wheelchair-bound MPs and visitors readyTHE Parliament building is now friendlier to wheelchair-bound MPs and visitors as its special lift is ready for use.
Chief Administrator Datuk Kamaruddin Mohamad Baria said: “Disabled visitors can now park their cars at the back of the Parliament building, wheel down a low-gradient ramp, which is covered with anti-slippery mat, to get to the back entrance of the Parliament. Then they can take the lift up.”
Convenience: Norizan trying out the lift for the disabled at the parliament building yesterday.
He said the proposal was to accommodate wheelchair-bound MPs like veteran DAP MP Karpal Singh and other visitors.
Wheelchair-bound Norizan Kasbi was pleasantly surprised when he saw the lift during a visit to Parliament yesterday.
The former Johor Umno Youth information chief was the first disabled person to use the lift.
“This is thoughtful of the Parliament administration,” said Norizan, 47, who became paralysed after a road accident in Sabah in 1999.
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