2018-09-01 Bio Spectrum

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With an increase in the trend of amputations in India where about 2.68 crore persons are ‘disabled’

(visual, hearing, speech, locomotor, and mental disabilities), the government of India launched.

Accessible India Campaign (AIC), a nationwide flagship campaign, with an aim to make a barrier

free and conducive environment for the differently-able community. There are several startups

coming up with superior and advanced technologies, which would serve and deliver an Affordable,

Sensitive, Specific, User-friendly, Rapid and robust, biomedical devices which are affordable to Low

and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC).

and animal attacks also contribute to traumatic

limb amputations. There is increasing trend of

amputations in India where about 2.68 crore persons

are ‘disabled’ (visual, hearing, speech, locomotor, and

mental disabilities) which is 2.21 per cent of the total

population. However prevalence rates are declining

for all disability types except locomotors disability.

So the way out for amputations should be

prosthesis: an artificial (limb) extension that replaces

a missing body part such as an upper (arms) or lower

(legs) body extremity. The type of artificial limb used

is determined largely by the extent of an

amputation or loss and location

of the missing

extremity.

There are four

main types of

I

ndia is a vast country with a large number

of individuals in the community of various

disabilities. It is roughly 0.62 amputees per

thousand populations which are close to one million

individuals with amputations

in the country. The two

main causes of amputations

are trauma (road traffic

accidents, railway accidents,

and burns due to fire,

electrocution, and chemical

injuries), vascular disease and

carcinoma. In the group aged

over 60 years, peripheral vascular

disease was a more common cause

of amputation than trauma. Motor

vehicle collisions, gunshot wounds,

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Mechanical hook (Source-brettvanort.wordpress)