Ms Lena Alai, Volta Regional Director of the Department of Women, on Friday said all Ghanaians needed to support the Disability Law 715 to address the challenges of the disabled.
She said the Law would benefit all because everyone in one way or the other suffered a disability.
Ms Alai made the observation when she addressed the general delegates meeting of the Ho Municipal Branch of the Ghana Association of the Blind.
It was under the theme; "2009, An Action Year for the Implementation of the Disability Law 715, Let Us All Be Involved".
Ms Alai said; "Many people are visually impaired in Ghana today by the fact that they could neither read nor move about without the aid of a pair of spectacles even though they could not be described as being blind. Every physical shortcoming is a disability".
Ms Alai said notwithstanding their situation, many disabled people like the blind had proved to have superior faculties which must be developed and tapped for national development.
She called for the establishment of rehabilitation centres in hospitals for the blind to help them adjust and lessen their dependence on their relations.
"There should also be more schools for the blind to enable them to have easy access to education because they have proved to have wonderful faculties."
Ms Alai therefore suggested that the 2010 Population and Housing Census should enumerate the blind as a special component of the census for purposes of planning to address their peculiar needs.
She advised the blind to be conversant with the Disability Law to enable them to assert their rights at all times.
Ms Alai suggested to the Ghana AIDS Commission to recruit the blind as HIV/AIDS Counsellors because the victims of the disease would be assured of confidentiality.