It is the duty of both the state and us as a society to ensure that our disabled people live a more comfortable life and to make their lives easier and to ensure that they benefit from all opportunities.

In this sense, Disabled Persons Week is not a celebration, but a day to raise awareness. The problems of our disabled citizens should be addressed and kept on the agenda constantly, not just for one day or week.

15 percent of the world population and 12 percent of our country's population are disabled citizens. There are currently 9.5 million disabled citizens in our country. We must help our disabled brothers and sisters in every way, without forgetting the fact that healthy people can become disabled at any time. In this regard, civil society organizations, as well as the state, have great responsibilities.

The development of countries is measured by the value they give to their citizens. If a state can embrace all its citizens, increase their quality of life and alleviate their problems, it is a social state. The state should make positive discrimination, especially for disadvantaged citizens, facilitate their living conditions and ensure that they contribute to production.

It is essential to have equal opportunities in education and for our disabled citizens to receive a more comfortable and quality education. We have been following up on the problems experienced by our disabled employees and will continue to do so, in order to make educational institutions suitable for our disabled citizens and to eliminate deficiencies. We are trying to do our part in making working environments suitable, improving working conditions and providing the materials they will use.

Everyone should be sensitive and do their best for the disabled to participate in all areas of public life as full and independent individuals, to ensure equal opportunities in the workplace, to benefit from personal development opportunities, to ensure their permanent access to education and training services, to plan and implement the arrangements considering our disabled citizens; for a Turkey and a world that does not confine its disabled within four walls and creates opportunities in the social area and employment in the public area.

Our disabled brothers and sisters should not be left to the kindness of others alone, but should also be provided with the opportunity of good laws that are not discriminatory.

A lifestyle befitting human dignity and integrating with society is the most natural right of the disabled and the primary duty of the state. Our constitution and laws have foreseen regulations with universal values ​​regarding the disabled and have made the state responsible for the problems of the disabled. The state must fulfill this responsibility.

As Anadolu Hospital, we will continue to make every effort and to resolve the problems with determination, as we have done so far, to solve the problems of our disabled people and to increase their gains.