US Charge D’Affairs to India, Patricia A Lacina, inspected the manufacturing process of Jaipur Foot
Jaipur. US Charge D’Affairs to India, Patricia A Lacina, inspected the manufacturing process of the world-famous artificial limb Jaipur Foot during a visit to the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) here on Friday.
Ambassador Lacina along with the officials of the US mission in India is on a visit to Jaipur and the delegation visited BMVV, which is the world’s biggest organisation for the rehabilitation of persons with disabilities.
Ambassador Lacina and her team saw the entire process of Jaipur Foot making and also the fitments of Jaipur foot and callipers. She met several amputees who had come for their limb fitments and handed over artificial limbs to the amputees.
Ambassador Lacina was received by the founder and the chief patron of the BMVSS D R Mehta, Executive President, S S Bhandari, the international affairs director, Satish Mehta, who is also India’s former ambassador to Kuwait, the two secretaries of the BMVSS Bhupendra Mehta and Dr Deependra Mehta, Chief Executive Officers S S Bissa and R K Agarwal, treasurer of BMVSS Vímal Chopra and technical Consultant Dr Pooja Mukul. She was also welcomed by the Jaipur Foot USA Chairman Prem Bhandari and Honorary Secretary of the Jaipur Foot USA, Maneesh Dhadda.
D R Mehta in his presentation to Ambassador Lacina and her team mentioned that BMVSS, since its inception has rehabilitated over two million Persons of disabilities (PWDs) and all its services are given free of cost to the beneficiaries. D R Mehta said there are 26 BMVV centres in India and BMVSS's reach is global and it has seven collaborative centres in Afghanistan, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania. Besides, BMVSS has held 91 on-the-spot Jaipur Foot artificial limb fitment camps in 39 countries across the globe benefitting over 37,000 amputees.
D R Mehta emphasised the fact that BMVSS wanted to give the best possible products and devices to the amputees and hence has collaborated with world-renowned technology institutions from the United States such as Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Santa Clara University and also IITs in India.The Jaipur Stanford knee joint developed by Stanford University in collaboration with BMVSS was hailed by Time magazine, as one of the 50 best innovations of the world in 2009. The globally acclaimed Harvard Business School has done a case study on BMVSS.
Ambassador Lacina appreciated the work done by BMVSS and Jaipur Foot.
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