424 amputees get free artificial limbs

By : Charles Akpeji, Jalingo

Date: 31 May 2022 3:45am WAT

Syrian amputees try their artificial limbs at the Syrian Arab Red Crescent facility, in the capital Damascus on July 15, 2018. At the Syrian Arab Red Crescent facility, patients of all ages try on their new prosthetics for size, as staff members carry in brand new artificial legs or arms from an nearby room. / AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA

No fewer than 424 Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) across the country have received free artificial limbs from the Centre for Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities (CAPWD).

Though the distribution held in Benue, elated beneficiaries from Taraba told The Guardian that the gesture would go a long way in easing their movement.

National President of the Centre, Omotunde Thompson, said the donation of the free limbs to beneficiaries was to easily integrate the PWDs into the society to fend for themselves, instead of depending on others or begging.

She noted that statistics showed that over one billion people, approximately 15 per cent of the world’s population, live with some form of disability, and Nigeria has 30 million PWDs.