Lahore: Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif launched a rematkable project of providing assistive devices to special people for the first time in the history of Punjab. She said,\u201dUnder the project, artificial limbs, hearing aids, wheelchairs and other equipment worth Rs 01 billion will be provided free of cost to special people in the province.\u201d
\nShe highlighted,\u201dSpecial people will be given manual wheelchairs, rollators, tricycles, electric and motorized wheelchairs. Tricycles, walking walkers, frame mobile toilet chairs, pads wheelchairs, controlled wheelchairs, hearing aids and artificial limbs will also be given free of cost to special people as per their needs.\u201d
\nMore than 300 special people from all over Punjab attended the inauguration ceremony. Madam Chief Minister sat among them in the ceremony. On her arrival, two lovely special girls Aiza and Ayesha welcomed her, and presented her bouquets. National anthem and its translation were presented in the ceremony in sign language.
\nMadam Chief Minister said,\u201dPunjab 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 \u201cBionics\u201d technology.\u201d She added,\u201dThe world\u2019s most expensive and latest artificial limbs made with \u201cBionics\u201d technology have the ability to move according to the brain\u2019s signals.\u201d
\nChief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif fitted six-year-old Sohail, who lost his arm below elbow in an electric shock, with an artificial arm of \u201cBionics\u201d technology. The installation of artificial arm that moves automatically when it receives signals from brain has changed little Sohail\u2019s life. He moved his hands for the first time after the accident, and expressed his happiness by clapping. Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif shook hands with little Sohail and gave him a high five. She encouraged and loved Sohail, and brought him back from the stage with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lahore: Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif launched a rematkable project of providing assistive devices to special people for the first time in the history of Punjab. She said,\u201dUnder the project, artificial limbs, hearing aids, wheelchairs and other equipment worth Rs 01 billion will be provided free of cost to special people in the province.\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":79842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79844,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79832\/revisions\/79844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}