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Orthopaedic Workshops

The main objective of the RAD orthopaedic workshops is to provide orthopaedic appliances and mobility aids for disabled individuals in order to improve their physical mobility and self reliance. The orthopaedic workshops are situated in the cities of Taloqan, Ghazni, Jalalabad and Mazar-e Sharif. Production includes; prostheses (artificial limbs), orthoses (callipers and corsets), wheelchairs, tricycles, crutches, walking sticks, chairs for children with cerebral palsy, and walking frames. A component workshop in Jalalabad also produces calliper joints and prosthetic feet for the orthopaedic workshops.
The orthopaedic technicians in RADs’s four workshops were all trained informally “on the job” when the workshops were set up. Now over half of them of them have completed training in a two year diploma course which has been run by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) for the last 5 years. This has given better grounding in theoretical and clinical knowledge to the technical staff. RAD is continuing technical training to improve the quality of the work through provision of outside training courses for the staff.

In 2006 10,602 appliances and mobility aids were made and delivered to disabled individuals.