Deaf-Blind Catagorised as Multiple - Disability. Why?
Hello Disability Rights Activists, I trust you are safe and doing well. I would like to share an important update with you. My younger brother, Akhtar Dhale who is also deaf-blind like me, is living in Pune. He is self-employed and is working from home selling candles and cloth bags with very minimal income. He is with our parents who are too old. His wife who is deaf is a house wife. Last Wednesday Akhtar went to Sasoon Eye Hospital for renewing his disability certificate for his disability pension. I advised him to take only Blind certificate instead of Deaf certificate as well. My brother's wife who is deaf also went along. The doctor assumed that both were deaf and gave him the certificate for deafness. But my brother thought that it was for 100% Blindness. When he submitted the photocopies of the certificate to the department at Pune Municipal Corporation, they were not approved. My brother could not check by reading the certificate. My cousin brother later ...