YENAGOA- Deaf people in Bayelsa have urged the State Government to assist their desire for more information on the dreaded HIV/AIDS scourge.
The deaf people, under the aegis of the Bayelsa State Association of the Deaf (BSAD), spoke with newsmen on Tuesday in Yenagoa, ahead of the association’s one week campaign on HIV/AIDS.
They said that government had remained silent on their quest for assistance, 13 days to the kick-off of the Deaf Awareness week on the disease.
“We are just not happy over government’s silence to our request,” the Chairman of
the association, Mr. Samuel Igwe-Icho, said.
‘’That we are deaf does not exclude us from government patronage. We are Bayelsans, and whatever information on HIV and AIDS should also be made available to us,’’ he said.
The deaf people appealed to the Chairman, State Action Committee on AIDS (SACA), and the Commissioner for Health, to immediately intervene in the matter.
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