Reference :
V-P-IQ-E-01399
Date :
10/02/2014
Caption :
Erbil, ICRC physical rehabilitation center. A young girl is learning how to use her new prosthetic leg.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
She was riding in her father’s car in downtown in Mosul in 2007 as their car was wrongly targeted at a US Army checkpoint and the US soldiers shot their car and she got a bullet in her right foot and as a consequence she lost her foot below the knee. The ICRC has been supporting the Iraqi Physical rehabilitation Program since 1993. The Erbil PRC was established in 1996 to provide services for patients with physical disabilities in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
From the ICRC website:
In 2013, the ICRC provided nearly 33,000 patients with physical rehabilitation materials and services in ten ICRC-supported and one ICRC-operated physical rehabilitation centres in Iraq. These centres continue to be supported with training and raw materials to manufacture equipment such as prostheses, crutches and wheelchairs.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
5616x3744
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
