If PwD candidate wins, changes would be made to policy on disability

SHAH ALAM - If Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidate for the Putrajaya parliamentary constituency Noraishah Mydin wins in the 15th General Election (GE15), there would be changes to the policy on disability.

One Love Charity Society president S. Jeyaraj said usually policy makers for the Person with Disability (PwD) community were not physically or mentally-challenged.

Thus, if Noraishah won, he said there will be changes in policy on disability since she was experiencing what most PwDs were experiencing.

Jeyaraj was previously a mechanical engineer in Singapore, but he was paralysed waist down due to a spinal cord injury after a job accident.

He said he was pleased and glad to have Noraishah as a representative for PwD.

“Usually, in that position as an MP of course she has a very huge responsibility not only to take care of the PwDs, she has to take care of the rakyat too.

“Now, this is the time she will show that PwDs are not going to be left behind," he said during Sinar Daily's Fireside Chat programme.

He added that he had written numerous suggestions to the government on issues faced by the PwDs over the past few years but it fell into deaf ears.

Noraishah was born with spina bifida and is wheelchair-bound.

She earned a doctorate in medical biotechnology from London University and served as a senior lecturer at Universiti Malaya's medical faculty.