ESCAP report on handicapped people in Vietnam
Ha Noi, March 3 (VNA) -- Thirty-eight percent of the nearly 5 million handicapped people in Viet Nam receive regular allowances, says an ESCAP report.
The UN's Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in its February bulletin, reports that 8 percent of the households in Viet Nam have handicapped members. The disabilities are the result of innate defects (34.15 percent), illness and diseases (35.75 percent), consequences of war (19.07 percent), traffic accidents (5.53 percent), labour accidents and other reasons (5.5 percent).
The UN agency adds that most of the handicapped are poor; about 35 percent of them suffer from illiteracy; and 97 percent have not been provided with vocational training.
It recognizes the fact that more than 6,000 handicapped children attend classes at 70 specialized schools and that more than 400 working establishments have been set up exclusively for 14,500 handicapped people.--VNA
