Reference :
V-P-MM-E-00162
Date :
20/01/2014
Caption :
Nay Pyi Taw. 7th ASEAN Para Games. Ten athletes whose prostheses were fitted at the Hpa-an Orthopedics Rehabilitation Center pose for a group photo on the last day of the games.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
The athletes pose together with representatives of the Ossur company and the communication team of the ICRC and Myanmar Red Cross Society.
In Myanmar, the ICRC provides technical and financial support to three physical rehabilitation centres: two run by the Ministry of Health and one run by the Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS).
ICRC website, Feature 30.01.2014
Excerpt:
... In Myanmar, the ICRC provides technical and financial support to three physical rehabilitation centres: two run by the Ministry of Health and one run by the Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS). “The ICRC’s physical rehabilitation projects aim to help bring about the full integration and participation of people with disabilities into society, both during and after the period of assistance,” explained Leo Gasser, the ICRC’s ortho-prosthetic adviser in Myanmar.
At the recently concluded Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, staged in Myanmar, both able-bodied and disabled athletes from the South-East Asian region represented their countries in high-level competition. While it’s good to see world-class able-bodied athletes excel at their sport, it can be inspirational to watch young, disabled people overcome their disability by competing in the paralympic version of the competition.
Ten athletes, users of MRCS centre prostheses, were given the opportunity to use a high-technology commercial prosthesis for the games. In all, seven gold, three silver and six bronze medals were won by eight of the ten competitors, using both MRCS/ICRC-supplied prostheses, as well as commercial models.
The MRCS and the ICRC were introduced to the commercial supplier at the Orthopaedic World Congress in India in 2013. Together, the two humanitarian organizations promoted collaboration between the Paralympic Sports Federation and the commercial supplier at the SEA Games.
“Individually our organizations would not have been able to achieve this outcome for the athletes, but by working together, the MRCS, Paralympic Sports Federation, the commercial supplier and the ICRC gave the athletes a chance to show their considerable potential – which they did with flying colours,” concluded Didier Reck, the ICRC’s physical rehabilitation programme manager in Myanmar.
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Orientation :
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