The aim of Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre is to ensure that paraplegics/ tetraplegics have a positive outlook in life and they should remember that “ IT IS NOT THEIR DISABILITY BUT ABILITY THAT COUNTS”.
To achieve this Centre works with following objectives: -
• Admit paraplegic / tetraplegic 100 % disabled soldiers for their medical care and extended rehabilitations which includes physical, psychological, financial and sexual rehabilitation.
• Provide after care for minor ailments, pressure sores, urinary tract infection and bowel upset for which they are prone/ pre-disposed.
• Provide physiotherapy / hydrotherapy facilities to improve the residual muscle power.
• Provide occupational therapy, vocational training in sheltered workshop and opportunities for job placemat.
• Look after the welfare like settlement of pension account, education of children and assistance for Defence Ministry and State / Central Govt.
• Impart training on rehabilitation of paraplegics/tetraplegics to Doctors and paramedics of armed forces and civil hospitals as a nodal agency.
NEED
Disabled personnel, from the Defence Forces of India following spinal cord injury which means paraplegics (with both lower limbs paralyzed and no bladder and bowel control) and tetraplegics (all four limbs paralyzed with no bladder and bowel control) suffer from one of the severest forms of physical disability that can afflict a living individual. After initial treatment although they become wheelchair borne, they still require life long medical care to prevent complications of urinary tract infection leading to kidney failure, bedsores, and pneumonias. Hence there is the need for Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre for these unfortunate disabled comrades-in-arms.
The then Prime Minister of India Smt. Indira Gandhi in PRC.
