551 Community based Rehabilitation Centres set up nationwide: Wan Azizah

BANGI: Some 551 Community based Rehabilitation Centres (PDK) have been established nationwide to provide equal opportunities for disabled people to integrate with the community, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
Wan Azizah, who is also Women, Family and Community Development Minister, said PDKs were being implemented through community rehabilitation and educational programmes for this group.
"The government's direction in the aspect of care for the disabled is by means of sustainable community based programmes and services and to share the responsibility of the disabled persons' welfare among their families, community and non governmental organisations," she said in her speech when visiting the Bangi Industrial and Rehabilitation Training Centre (PLPP) today.
At the event, Dr Wan Azizah also officiated the National Abilympics Competition 2018, a vocational and occupational skills competition designed specifically for the disabled.
The National Abilympics Competiton 2018 today was aimed at selecting disabled athletes to represent the country at the 10th International Abilympics in Shanghai, China in 2020.
Commenting on the PKR election when met by reporters later, Dr Wan Azizah, who is also PKR president, said there was no split ahead of the party's election.
"There is no split in PKR," she said briefly, adding that the party practised a democratic system in the party election.
Prior to this, PKR Women chief Zuraida Kamaruddin admitted there were several factions in PKR ahead of the party election next month. However Zuraida said it was a healthy competition in accordance with the democracy practised in the party. — Bernama