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ICRC improves limb-fitting capacity

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    The ICRC signed a new agreement on 20 April with the Sudanese ministries of defence and social planning, to extend support, by three years, to the National Centre for Prosthetics and Orthotics in Khartoum. Work started in 1998 to upgrade the Centre's facilities to increase assistance to mine victims and other war amputees. ICRC said in a report it aimed to
    "develop and modernise the local technology by providing standard-quality components made of polypropylene" and boost production to 900 units a year. It will also hold advanced training courses for technicians from Khartoum and other parts of the country. Improved facilities include separate premises for men and women, providing dormitories, rehabilitation
    and physiotherapy facilities. ICRC said it was an important step to allow amputees to travel and stay in Khartoum on their own initiative, and for those brought by ICRC from conflict zones.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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