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Rehabilitation Centre Helps Disabled Soldiers Learn to 'Live'
December 06, 2007 at 8:52 PM
General Health News
The Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre imparts vocational training to the former soldiers suffering from disabilities to enable them to live a dignified and economically independent life. The skills include trades like weaving, knitting, tailoring, candle making and wire brush making.
Anil Jha, who had become paraplegic after suffering an injury during action, turned to Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre for assistance.
"Before coming to this place, my life was full of despair, particularly, after all my children went to other places to pursue higher studies. I came here in January 2004. I feel confident and happy after learning various skills at this place, said Anil Jha, another PRC in-patient.
When a patient comes here from the hospital, he is totally disabled. He can't even drive his wheel chair. After he comes to the centre he learns everything. Here one learns how to lead life," he added.
Thirty seven soldiers of the Indian Army are presently receiving rehabilitation therapy at the Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre here. Twenty-four of them are paralysed below the waist while the other 13 have all limbs paralysed.
The idea of setting up a Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre was mooted in the early '70s to rehabilitate army personnel who suffered spinal or other injuries resulting into a state of paraplegia or tetraplegia.
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