Dubai Is About To Become A More Accessible Place For Residents With Disabilities And We’re Hardly Surprised
In a move to make the city of Dubai completely friendly for disabled people, thousands of buildings across the city, including schools, hospitals and hotels, will be retrofitted over the next three years.
According to a report, this development is a part of Making Dubai Disability Friendly by 2020 initiative launched by Emirates NBD.
Ten key sectors will be a part of this upgrade including education, healthcare, tourist destinations and mosques
The number is in the thousands if you put together the schools, health care facilities, mosques, parks and recreational areas, shopping malls and retail centres. We also have a team that is working on the delivery on the ground. We are now in the execution period and are putting the policy into work. This will cover more than 100km of streets, road networks to make these more accessible and we are anchoring it on a 2020 timeline.
Salem Al Shafei, General Secretariat of the Executive Council of Dubai
This initiative is definitely a priority as the developers have been informed that they will not receive permits for new buildings unless all the conditions are met to make the city more accessible to those with any kind of disability.
