Polio Rehabilitation

Support rooms helping children with disabilities

Wednesday, 21 December 2011 12:20

Written by Op Mercy Tajikistan

One young Tajik girl receives therapy at the support room in her local community

As one part of the Polio Rehabilitation Project, Operation Mercy is establishing and equipping support rooms in strategic locations so families with disabled children can receive assistance. Alisher is a six-year-old child with spastic Cerebral Palsy. He is being cared for by his grandmother and father, with some help from…

Rehabilitation in the local community

In 2010, Tajikistan experienced an outbreak of polio that left 700 children and young people with paralysis. Today, community-based rehabilitation support rooms are being set up across the region for children affected by the polio outbreak. As we are setting up these rooms, we are training people from the medical,…

A workshop for medical trainers in Dushanbe

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Polio epidemic in Tajikistan

“Faris watched us with anxious eyes while we examined her daughter. She smiles when we get her daughter to laugh and a sparkle comes into her eyes. We note that the girl has been paralysed by polio for nearly eight months. The chances for improvement are largely nonexistent. It is…