CRIKVENICA, April 25 (Hina) - The first Croatian symposium on the disabled, organized by the Croatian Union of organizations of the disabled and sponsored by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, started in Selce, northern Adriatic, on
Thursday.
CRIKVENICA, April 25 (Hina) - The first Croatian symposium on the
disabled, organized by the Croatian Union of organizations of the
disabled and sponsored by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman,
started in Selce, northern Adriatic, on Thursday. #L#
"There are more than 500,000 disabled people in Croatia",
Tudjman's representative Slobodan Lang said at the symposium.
Participants in the symposium will determine models of
organizing the disabled, principles of financing and securing space
for their work engagement, current problems and future work of the
Croatian Association of Disabled War Veterans (HVIDRA), relations
between local self-government and the Association, and the role of
occupational medicine in the maintaining of the disabled's working
ability.
The three-day symposium, attended by about 200 participants,
will be accompanied by an exhibition of vehicles for the disabled
and domestic and foreign orthopaedic aids.
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