CURE Clubfoot Worldwide plans to eradicate clubfoot as a life-long disability through 100 countrywide programs over a ten-year span.
By the end of 2008, CURE plans to have cared for over 7,000 clubfoot children. The launch of clubfoot programs in India will help them reach this goal.
Clubfoot affects over 100,000 children annually, and almost 80% of these live in developing nations.
CURE programs have already offered care and treatment to children in Honduras, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Ethiopia and Cambodia.
By using the Ponseti method, clubfoot can be corrected without surgery. Ligaments, joints and tendons are stretched under gentle manipulations, which gradually reduce the deformity. A plaster cast is applied after each manipulation to soften ligaments and retain the degree of correction. After a few weeks in the splints, the foot looks normal.
The first statewide program in Bangalore has seen 100 patients in the last 3 months. Two other programs are planned for Mumbai and Delhi. Because India's population is so large, three statewide programs were established rather than one countrywide program. The program will train nationals to perform the Ponseti Method, and combat the prejudice against clubfoot by counseling families and raising awareness in their communities.
Other Health and Disability News Highlights from India
Pune, A long-felt need to understand what causes kidney failure in children has led to the setting up of a National Pediatric Kidney Diseases Registry, which in its interim report has shown that 45 per cent of at least 300 children with chronic kidney failure had developed an obstruction or a urinary tract infection. The disease could have been prevented had it been diagnosed early in childhood. With this objective, a National Pediatric Kidney Diseases Registry was started in collaboration with Indian Society of Nephrology.
It’s better to be a patient of schizophrenia in India than in the West. Indian patients have recorded better outcomes than their counterparts in many developed nations, noted the International Study of Schizophrenia (ISOS), a study conducted over 20 years. The reason, said the study that was completed in 2007, is the support that patients get from their extended family.
HYDERABAD: The most recent study indicates that each year unsafe injections cause an estimated 1.3 million early deaths, a loss of 26 million years of life, and an annual burden of 535 million US dollars in direct medical costs. Unsafe injection practices are a powerful engine to transmit blood-borne pathogens, including hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to experts Quality Enhancement Cell Liquat University of Medical and Health Science Jamshoro, LUMHS, Dr Naeem Qureshi shared their views here on Saturday.
Pune, There has been an increase in the crimes against senior citizens in the city and for that to some extent everyone including the citizens themselves are responsible. I would like to take this opportunity to warn all citizens to be aware of people who come into their societies, and not to fall prey to scamsters, godmen and salesmen promising them free things, and easy money,” Jayant Umranikar, Additional Director General of Police said at the golden jubilee celebrations of the Institute of Engineers on Saturday.
It's another kind of great depression in India. As the country observes World Mental Health Week (this month from October 6 to October 11) mental health experts are alarmed at the shortage of professionals to cope with the increasing number of patients in India. The number of patients in the country suffering from mental ailments is estimated to be at least 40 million. And that is just a rough estimate. Depression one of the many mental health problems is likely to be one of the biggest health concerns for the world, more so in India. Depression in India
NEW DELHI: At the age of four, Sheela Sharma lost both her arms and the toes of her right foot in a train accident. Now 39, she is a painter by profession. Sharma paints with her left foot using her toes. She holds the brush between her big toe and the next one and paints as deftly as anybody with hands. She does everything the job requires of her mixing paints and shifting canvases herself. Putting the canvas she is working on against the wall or on the floor according to its size, Sharma steps back to scrutinize her work from a distance every now and then. She graduated from an art school in Lucknow in 1991. Her works are displayed in exhibitions; she also designs greeting cards.
Lahore: Sixty-seven children have been stricken by polio in the country. According to the latest statistics, many among them will face disability for life - a plight that is especially daunting in a nation not known for either its healthcare facilities or support for the impaired. Most frightening of all is the fact that with the year still not complete, the number of polio cases has already exceeded the 37 discovered in 2007.
The World Health Organisation has urged member-states in Southeast Asia to ensure that all hospitals and other health facilities are disaster-resilient. The appeal, which came on International Day for Disaster Reduction, said that when health facilities got damaged or failed to function after disasters, it added to the suffering and increased the risk of death or disability among the affected people.
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