LAHORE: Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the chief minister of Punjab, has started a scheme to give the province’s disabled residents wheelchairs, hearing aids, artificial limbs, and other assistive technology for a total of Rs1 billion.
The opening ceremony drew approximately 300 distinguished guests from Punjab.
In accordance with their requirements, the beneficiaries will receive rollators, tricycles, walkers, frame mobile toilet chairs, manual, electric, and motorized wheelchairs, pads, hearing aids, and artificial limbs, according to the CM.
She continued, “Punjab has become the first province in Pakistan to have the ability to rehabilitate disabled people and make their lives as active as normal people through the bionics technology.”
She added, “The world’s most expensive and latest artificial limbs made with bionics technology have the ability to move according to the brain’s signals.”
Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz fitted six-year-old Sohail, who had lost his arm below elbow to an electric shock, with an artificial arm developed through the technology. The artificial arm moves automatically when it receives signals from brain.
The boy moved his hand for the first time after the accident, and expressed his happiness by clapping. Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz shook hands with Sohail and gave him a high five.
The chief minister also presided over a meeting to review the acquisition and recovery of loans under the Apni Chhat, Apna Ghar Programme of housing.
A suggestion to add more commercial banks to the housing plan was discussed during the meeting due to the public’s interest.
In a briefing, the participants learned that in just five months, 28,219 families had obtained interest-free loans totaling Rs 30 billion. The initiative is now working on the completion of about 23,500 homes.
