At the end of last year, there were only 73 disabled people, or around 0.2 percent of Macau’s over 30,000 public sector workers, Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) President Celeste Vong Yim Mui said yesterday.
Responding to legislator-cum-educator Chan Hong’s remarks during a Q&A session in the legislature that it was “rather difficult” for Macau’s disabled people to get a job in the public sector, Vong said most of the 73 disabled worked as “service assistants”.
However, responding to Vong’s remarks, five lawmakers – Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong, Leong Veng Chai, Jose Maria Pereira Coutinho, Wong Kit Ching and Legislative Assembly Vice-President Lam Heong Sang – slammed the government for not putting enough effort into creating better career opportunities for the disabled.
Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) President Celeste Vong Yim Mui (centre) speaks during a Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle while Clarence Choi Sio Un (left), who heads the bureau’s Social Solidarity Department, and Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) Deputy Director Joana Maria Noronha look on. Photo: Ian Sio Tou
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