Anju, a young housewife in Haryana’s Zind, arrived at the BMVSS Center in Jaipur, burning on the summer afternoon. This is his third thing in a decade. He came here for the first time when he lost a leg in a road accident. A car quickly passed by him when he was walking on a raw road.
Keeping in mind the incident, he shone, “My legs were cut off and fell aside.” Later, his disabled brother -in -o showed him a way to fit his leg from the famous Jaipur leg. They need to be changed every three or four years. This time the whole process will take only four hours and it is absolutely free.
BMVSS is a non -profit organization in Jaipur that the city (or the country) is the largest social invention of the world is accessible worldwide.
In 1997, Time Magazine mentioned, “Although people living in war from Afghanistan to Rwanda will never hear about New York or Paris, they will be well aware of India’s northern city of Jaipur.
The city is famous as an extraordinary synthesis, that is, the birthplace of an artificial organs in Jaipur, the bored region. It is known as ‘Jaipur Foot’, which has revolutionized the lives of millions of people with disabilities with landmines. “
Jaipur is a beneficiary on foot.
Jaipur started the foot
All this began in the 60s when a doctor and a local craftsman started working together in Jaipur: Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi was an orthopedic surgeon at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur; At the same time, Ramchandra Sharma was an illiterate sculptor who taught people with leprosy to make handicrafts.
Dr. Pramod Sethi, during his work at the hospital, realized that he was inappropriate for Indians who were advised to get a solid-cuel-cushion-hell (SACH) artificial foot because they often walk on the floor without shoes.
He then contacted Ramchandra Sharma and informed him about foot activities and stress issues. This is both interested professionals, using different materials for two years, keep trying to make an ideal artificial. Then one day, when Ramchandra Sharma was getting a punch on his bicycle tire when he thought why he should not make rubber legs.
However, rubber easily burst. However, by adding rubber to the wooden organs, then it wrapped in a light rubber, it was valcanized.
Dr. Pramod Sethi formally presented Jaipur’s legs in front of the British Orthopedic Surgeons in Oxford in 1971. However, most people suspected of its effectiveness. This is why it was used and accepted by only 59 people until 1975.
In the same year, Devendra Raj Mehta, a senior bureaucrat, founded the BMVSS, who later became the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
This was the time when Jaipur was making its mark in India.
Fighting
The Soviet-Afghan war began in 1979. Thousands of Afghans were injured from the Russian Landamines. Many children were involved in it.
Matur, the head of the technical branch of Jaipur from the beginning, explained, “We have learned our first lesson in Afghanistan. The patients of Afghanistan, against India, had to rise in the mountainous region. The Afghan people informed us that they had difficulty in their name, they used to use them for fall.
Since then BMVSS has been sending his parties during the war in Afghanistan for decades. In addition to these, an agreement with the National Disability Institute of Afghanistan has also been signed, under which trained experts are given the responsibility of prostation of 70 to 100 per month.
Jaipur feet, which were made globally and especially with war -associated areas, were easy to adapt to, culturally convenient to Afghan people, because they were on the floor, like Indians.
On the other hand, more than 2,5 people were injured in the war in the Sandinista Revolution of 19799, many of which had to be cut.
In the 5th, Nicaragua was introduced to Jaipur leg and according to the New York Times, it became a “extension plan site” from which the rest of the United States of Latinia and other poor regions that were destroyed as a result of the war, where adequate treatment was not found. “
Jaipur feet were designed for the benefit of everyone. The primary versions made of rubber, wood and aluminum were also made using locally available materials in other countries.
An article in Time Magazine states, “Afghan craftsmen make artificial legs, use a torn cannon ball. Some parts of the rubber on the artificial leg of Cambodia are taken from the truck tires. There are about 1 out of every 380.”
Innovation form
Since then the legs of Jaipur have changed a lot. Its adaptation capacity is its specialty.
Its technology is constantly developing, and the best research institutes in India and the world – the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the University of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a special contribution.
Now most of its work is done in two laboratories in the center. In 2002, with the help of NASA, a gold standard GAT lab was installed.
Examples
Now this laboratory is dedicated to research and a new laboratory has been purchased last year.
“Old Gat Lab Lab takes 3.5 hours every 3.5 hours, but now our technician can get information within 15 minutes, whether the new organ is like the second limbs. They can measure the capacity of hip, gesture, knee, knee, knee,” said Mehta, the head of the BMVSS research. It is possible to improve.
Jaipur feet enable all common activities to do all the common activities as before.