Ganjam DM assures driving training to them
The Rotary Club, Brahmapur East in association with the Rotary Club, Pune Downtown provided artificial hands to persons with disabilities (PwDs) free of cost at a programme held at the MKCG Medical College Hospital here.
Ganjam district Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange, MKCH Medical College Principal Dr Radha Madhav Tripathy, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) Department HOD Prof Abanikant Mishra and Rotary Club 3262 Governor Bhavani Choudhury attended as guests.
The Collector informed that the PwDs after implanting of the limbs would be given driving training and later would be provided with driving licences.
About 240 PwDs from different districts of the State as well as from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were provided free artificial limbs. Among others, Rotary Club, Brahmapur East president Ajit Kumar Prusty, secretaries Sumit Kumar Patnaik, Sudhansu Sekhar Khadangray, Arun Chand Dash, Ajit Dutta, Dr Pradeep Patnaik, Ranjit Patro, Dr Sambit Buhray, Jawarlal Pal and Kush Patro were present.