The polio-affected and amputees made a beeline for registration on the four-day long ‘artificial limbs and polio calipers camp’ on Wednesday. This camp is being organised under the aegis of the Max India Foundation and Manav Seva Sannidhi at Raphael Ryder Cheshire home. More than 200 people had registered themselves in the camp on the first day where prosthetic legs and calipers would be provided to them.
The founder and executive trustee of ‘Manav Seva Sannidhi’ Abhilasha Singhvi told The Pioneer that more one lakh people across the country have benefitted till date from the camps of the organisation. “ I look at this initiative as a way to embrace the disabled people and help them rejoice by making them walk again and continue their journey of life with dignity and self-respect,” she said while elaborating the objective of the Dehradun camp.
The advisor of Max India Foundation, Viresh Karki said that the camp is drawing a very good response and people from Garhwal, Haridwar and different parts of Dehradun district have registered themselves in the camp. After registration the measurements of the amputees is taken and a stump made of Plaster of Paris (POP) is prepared, on this stump a mould (HDPE pipe) is prepared on the base of which famous Jaipur Foot is prepared.
A former taxi driver Vipin Kumar, who lost both his legs in a tragic accident at Dehradun railways station told this correspondent that he was feeling dejected after the accident as he is the only earning member of his family but after coming here (camp) he is feeling reborn. He informed that he is now planning to start a little shop to earn a livelihood. A resident of Nalapani in Dehradun Shyam Sundari (65) said that her right leg was amputated about five years ago due to a type of cancer and with the prosthetic leg she hopes that life would be less difficult to her now. Volunteers at the camp are former beneficiaries who willingly give their services in different parts of the country. Mrinal Bhai who owns a workshop in Ahemdabad said he is associated with the organisation for last 20 years ever since he was provided Jaipur foot.