Chandigarh: The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, has inaugurated an amputee clinic, institute’s director Jagat Ram said on Tuesday.
The first of its kind clinic in India, which was formally inaugurated on Monday, has been set up to improve amputation patient care by providing collection of services under one roof and with significant coordination, reported news agency IANS.
The Director said its basic intent is to unify all diverse sections in the hospital with some upgradations where needed. According to him, it is aimed at providing appropriate management to amputees to guide them in their path to rehabilitation in society.
Praising the initiative, Jagat Ram also ensured that some modalities need to be worked out under the initiative to extend financial aid for the medical as well as rehabilitation of the deserving and destitute amputees.
“This is the first-of-its-kind clinic in the country and no such clinic exists elsewhere. Over the last few years, it has been our endeavour to provide comprehensive care to post-trauma amputees, with various aspects of multidisciplinary care,” Orthopaedics Department Head, MS Dhillon, who spearheaded the initiative, was quoted as saying by IANS.
“We have combined all the specialities that help in patient care and rehab under one roof, we have now formalized this as PGI amputee clinic comprising specialists from various departments that is, orthopaedics, PMR (physical and medical rehabilitation), occupational physiotherapy, prosthetists, psychologists and nursing departments, who had already been providing care but as individual entities. It is a concept to provide holistic care to patients with amputation,” Dhillon added.
ALSO READ: IIT Madras Starts HSEE 2021 Registration; Check Details
Comments are closed.