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Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti-BMVSS is a Jaipur-based non-profit organization, founded by D.R. Mehta in 1975. It is the world's largest organization for the disabled in terms of fitment of artificial limb, calipers etc., providing them with artificial limbs (including the Jaipur foot), calipers, crutches, ambulatory aids like wheel chairs, and other aids and appliances totally free ...
Narayan Seva Sansthan is a non-profit charitable organisation based in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. [1] It is known for providing philanthropic services in the field of treatment and rehabilitation of polio affected people without discrimination of religion, region, caste, or gender. [2]
KS Rajanna [1] [2] is a 64-year-old social worker from Bengaluru. He lost the use of his hands and legs due to polio at the age of 11. [3] President Droupadi Murmu presented Padma Awards 2024 at the second Civil Investiture Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
Post-Polio Health International (PHI) is a relatively new name for a non-profit organization that officially began its work in 1960. For many years it was known in medical, rehabilitation, and disability circles variously as GINI, or the International Polio Network, or the Rehabilitation Gazette Network, [1] or more familiarly as Gini’s Network, in honor of Gini Laurie, its founder and ...
Poliomyelitis (/ ˌ p oʊ l i oʊ ˌ m aɪ ə ˈ l aɪ t ɪ s / POH-lee-oh-MY-ə-LY-tiss), commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. [1] Approximately 75% of cases are asymptomatic; [5] mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe symptoms develop such as headache, neck stiffness, and paresthesia.
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Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, disabled rights activist and member of the House of Lords (born with spinal muscular atrophy) Sir Winston Churchill , MP between 1901 and 1964, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; in his second premiership (1951–55) became increasingly deaf (condition onset 1949) and a wheelchair user ...
She learned to walk with crutches and calipers, which was considered "a remarkable achievement given the extent of her initial paralysis". [1] In 1949 she sailed back to New Zealand. At Auckland Hospital she was told she would spend the rest of her life living in institutions, at which point she left the hospital and moved first to her mother's ...