{"id":172985,"date":"2019-12-04T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=172985"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:23:03","slug":"dala-orthopaedic-partners-with-red-cross-to-establish-amputee-rehabilitation-centre-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=172985","title":{"rendered":"Dala Orthopaedic partners with Red Cross to establish amputee rehabilitation centre in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Mohammed Salihu, Medical Director, National Orthopaedic Hospital Dala (NOHD) says the hospital will further partner with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to establish a Prosthetic and Orthotic Centre in Maiduguri, Borno.<\/p>\n

Prosthetics and orthotics are clinical disciplines that deal with artificial limbs (prostheses) for people with amputations and supportive devices (orthoses), for people with musculoskeletal weakness or neurological disorders.<\/p>\n

Salihu said this in an interview with newsmen who were on a visit to ICRC Prosthetic and Orthotic Centre at NOHD in Kano.<\/p>\n

The centre was established in 2016, under the ICRC Prosthetic Rehabilitation Programme (PRP), to rehabilitate people with disabilities, who were affected by arm conflict in the North-East.<\/p>\n

No fewer than 608 amputees of bomb blast and other explosions from the North-East and Kano had benefited from the programme since 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are partnering with them (ICRC) to establish a similar centre in Borno; that we are happy about with, it will not likely stop the number of patients that come here.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are already overwhelmed, we handle patients from most parts of Northern Nigeria and part of the Niger Republic, Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Chad; if there is another centre in Borno, to us it a good thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are partnering with ICRC to train individuals who are going to work in Maiduguri to provide similar artificial limbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are also hoping in the future, we are going to partner in a few other areas in terms of establishing Prosthesis and Orthotics schools in these institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is something that is in my 2020 agenda and I hope we will be able to get there soon.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

He further explained that the hospital partnered with ICRC in the provision of artificial limbs to amputees, especially from the North-East, along the line they extended the provision to some patients in Kano.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey offered support for individuals who had suffered from the absence of lower or upper limbs; it is a great assistance for them to go back to normal life.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only that the ICRC is giving artificial limbs. They are also partnering with us in terms of training; they have trained some of our Surgeons.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have trained them on how to manage severe trauma, particularly the early face of Trauma and that has actually helped to boost the human resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cICRC has not stopped there; they also help sometimes to provide some consumables for the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have carried our partnership a little beyond that as I am talking to you, ICRC has brought in some students from Maiduguri to come and understudy what we do here in the Prosthetic Department of the Hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that when they are well trained, they can go back to Maiduguri and establish similar facilities there because we need to do what is sustainable,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

The medical director, however, allayed fears about the sustainability of the programme, saying \u201cthere is no fear if the programme stops we are prepared to sustain it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are not moving out with any equipment, so when we have the equipment on the ground, 50 per cent of the problem is solved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing we are discussing with ICRC is how to get raw materials.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, ICRC has assisted us with a slot for two Kano indigenes that have gone to Tanzania for specialised training in this area,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Similarly, ICRC\u2019s Ortho\u2013Prosthetist, Ms. Idah Kadyamatimba told newsmen that the Prosthetic and Orthotic Centre in Maiduguri, Borno centre would be opened by 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cDala Hospital has already Prosthetic and Orthotics Department; While ICRC has to partner with them to provide access to rehabilitation for people in the North East.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at the numbers we are dealing with, it was not possible for the hospital to manage it alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe plan is to partner with the hospital to work in Markurdi centre and the centre is expected to be opened in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cICRC has invested also in the training of staff who will work in the centre,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

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