The dean of the Stanley Hospital, on Saturday, initiated the first phase of the project, that is being carried out in association with Masusa Foundation NGO by distributing ten. pieces of the orthotics equipment worth Rs 50,000.
Director of Institute of Social Pediatrics, while speaking about the same to a media house said that the distribution will be made to the children who might need the equipment and that the distribution would be done in a phased manner.
He also appealed the children from poor backgrounds who are in need of such equipment to reach out to the hospital's District Early Intervention Centre that has been set up under the National Health Mission and runs with an objective of effectively identifying children with deficiencies as well as birth defects and eventually providing treatment for them..