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Health, Medical and Family Welfare Minister Satya Kumar Yadav connected Monday announced that artificial limb manufacturing units would soon beryllium established successful 5 authorities teaching hospitals crossed Andhra Pradesh.
The centres, to beryllium acceptable up successful Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Ongole, Tirupati and Kurnool, volition manufacture a scope of assistive devices required by persons with disabilities, including artificial limbs, wheelchairs, proceeding immunodeficiency and different mobility and enactment equipment. The inaugural aims to marque specified devices much accessible and affordable for beneficiaries, the Minister said successful a statement.
Following support from the Union government, teams from the Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) began visiting the identified hospitals connected Monday to measure onshore availability and infrastructure requirements for establishing the units.
According to the Health Department, India presently has 102 specified manufacturing centres. With the Union authorities readying to summation the fig to 300 by 2030, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had urged the Centre to found 1 specified installation successful each territory of Andhra Pradesh. In response, support was granted for mounting up units successful the 5 cities.
Director of Secondary Health K. V. N. Chakradhar Babu and Secretary, Women, Child Welfare, Senior Citizens, Differently-Abled Persons and Transgender Welfare Department, Surya Kumari, reviewed the projected facilities and discussed assorted aspects related to their constitution connected Monday.
The authorities volition soon motorboat a recruitment thrust to name unit for measuring beneficiaries, manufacturing and fitting assistive devices, undertaking repairs, and providing different enactment services. The centres are expected to importantly amended entree to prime assistive devices and after-sales enactment for persons with disabilities successful the State.
