Mukti’s artificial limbs will soon help people like I. Ramu and Jayanthi, who lost their mobility due to diabetes, move around.
On Sunday, Mukti, the M.S. Dadha Foundation, presented limbs to seven persons at an event at the Express Avenue Mall.
Mr. Ramu, whose leg was amputated in December, said he would now be able to get back to normal life. “Someone who got a limb from Mukti told me about it. I will now have to learn to walk again, like I did when I was a child,” he said.
Mahendra Dadha, trustee of the foundation, said in its 33 years of service from 1986, Mukti had given over three lakh artificial limbs and calipers to the disabled.
Training youth
Meena Dadha, founder, Mukti, said they were also providing training in electrical and electronic goods repairs and servicing to youth at its centre in Meenambakkam. “I want amputees to be able to take care of themselves and their families. The classes are open to anyone in the 15-30 age group,” she said.
Letika Saran, former DGP, who thanked Mukti for giving dignity to people who had lost their limbs, said when one lost a limb, getting an artificial limb and becoming whole again made sense.
T.A.P. Varadakutti, president, Tamil Nadu Udavikaram Association for the Welfare of the Differently Abled said Mrs. Meena Dadha had dedicated her entire life for the cause of the disabled.
H. Ramakrishnan, former director (news), Doordarshan Kendra, Chennai, said constitutional protection was needed for the disabled for them to be able to invoke it when their rights were denied.
