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Community Services for Spinal Cord Injuries & Stroke
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View DetailsThe Naandi Community-based
Rehabilitation for PSCIs
Samarthya reaches out to People with Spinal Cord Injuries (PSCIs)
through a community outreach programme that presently covers 3 districts:
Raichur, Koppal and Vijayanagar.
An informal study by Hilary Crowley, then of Action Health and now of SODA, in 2013 highlighted a grim reality: most PSCIs die within 2 years of coming back to their homes because of pressure sores and related infections from lying on hard floors, the absence of toileting facilities and the lack of professional assistance.
Their grim reality is
compounded by depression, the lack of mobility appliances, low access to resources to teach skills
of daily living, as well as low access to resources to adapt their, often, inaccessible
environment.
To overcome some of these issues, this intervention reaches PSCIs in
their homes. PSCIs and their families are supported by a
sensitisation/awareness programme on spinal injuries, Counselling, Community
support, independent living skills, referrals for aids and appliances, as well as medical follow-up and linkages.
The mission of this intervention is to “promote social inclusion of
persons with spinal cord injuries to enable and empower them to become
contributing members of their society”.
Interestingly enough, many PSCIs who were lying in darkness in a
forgotten corner of their homes have now adapted their home fronts into shops
and have become contributing members to their household economies.