NCCR Meet Team Developing Artificial Limbs Center In Gaza Strip

The delegation of National Center for Community Rehabilitation, represented by Mr. Khaled Abu Zaid, home care staff, and accompanied by Mrs. Anja from the Dutch Organization of Kifaia and a Dutch medical team, held a visit to Red Cross Association where they met a foreign team who is charging the affairs of developing the Artificial Limbs Center in Gaza. 

The NCCR's delegation delivered a speech on the essential activities and programs at the center concerning home care program in particular; which provides medical, psychological and informative services, in addition to other assistive aids for physical disabled people and their families at homes . Those services are particularly provided to those of hard cases such as paraplegia and quadriplegia undergoing bedsores, spasm, and other health problems. The program serves the disabled people of both genders and all ages. Conducting home visits is the responsibility of dedicated medical and psychological teams as this program offers its diverse services to the disabled people in all Gaza governorates. 

At that time, Mrs. Sara, a physiotherapist, explained other activities of the program of artificial limbs development as the project works on developing the Artificial Limbs Association, training the center's employees and improving services, in addition to organize, supervise and improve processes of amputation and physio therapy at hospitals in Gaza Strip by summoning a surgical team during  next months. Mrs. Sara did also clarify the basic purpose of such project which is the disability of those who need artificial limbs to leave Gaza Strip under the ongoing siege.

As a result, both teams agreed to transmit the cases, who need artificial limbs, to the Artificial Limbs Association; only they are become rehabilitated by home care teams in the NCCR. As the Artificial Limbs Association is going to send cases, of the project, to be rehabilitated in the NCCR before they get the artificial limb which they need. Moreover, it will be some awareness of the artificial limb role through many workshops.