Angul: Physically challenged persons in Angul who have disability since birth or due to any disease or road mishap will no longer have to depend on others.
The government is setting up an ‘Advance Rehabilitation Centre’ at Kadam Padia area in Angul district. The district administration aims to help physically challenged people at this facility which is a third of its kind in the state after Bhubaneswar and Sundargarh.
The centre will start functioning from March end or the first week of April, it was learnt.
Construction work of the centre on the premises of the District Social Security and Empowerment office is underway. The district administration has signed an MoU with B. R. Biomedical Private Limited to run the centre.
In the initial stage, six rooms are being constructed. Of them, two will be used for manufacturing prosthetic limbs and the remaining four will have treatment facilities.
Once the facility is made functional, the administration will take immediate steps to make the facilities available to one and all so that there will neither be any physically challenged persons nor will they depend on others for their survival. They will be provided treatment at the centre free of cost.
Here the measurements of the prosthetic limbs will be taken with the help of computers so that they will not face any problems in the future as it happens in case of measurements being taken manually.
The District Mineral Foundation (DMF) has released around Rs 19 crore for the setting up of the centre. While Rs 12 crore has been earmarked for procuring equipments, the rest of the fund amount will be used for developing infrastructure and maintenance, it was learnt.
Those suffering from neurological disorders will be provided with robotics therapy at the centre, the district administration informed.
PNN