A patient education program with wheelchair awareness rally was organized by department of PMR on Spinal Cord Injury day on Monday. Chief Guest, Prof. (Dr) Ajai Singh, Executive Director AIIMS, Bhopal in his address lauded the efforts of the PMR department in Rehabilitation of Spinal Injury persons.
He also advised to learn about advances in stem cell therapy in spinal injury which is being done at few institutes nationally and internationally. Dean, Prof (Dr) Rajesh Malik, Medical Superintendent, Prof. (Dr) Manisha Shrivastava were also present in the event and expressed the view that such events should be arranged to create awareness among the masses about Spinal cord injury and Divyangta associated with spinal cord injury.
A patient education booklet was also released by the Director. Meena Yadav, Manvendra Yadav, Sumit Chaudhary, Dhanraj Rai, Harish Mehera were also present as the Special guest for the event.
They all shared their experience and journey of spinal injury and role of rehabilitation in recovering them from spinal injury. They shared the thought of keeping the positive attitude towards life. A patient education program was organized to sensitize the spinal injured patients and their family regarding the complications associated with spinal cord injury where Dr SY Kothari elaborated the role of rehabilitation strategies in making these patients a productive part of the society.
Prof. (Dr.) Ajai Singh, while addressing to the Wheelchair Rally expressed the view that all individual should have equal right of accessibility and the wheelchair should not limit their mobility and advised we all should try to implement our Prime minister’s vision of Sugamya Bharat.