Physiotherapy in Uganda, how would you use the scraps?
I have a friend who has just started taken up a physiotherapy role… in Uganda! Zillah has been blogging about her experiences of working in a very different environment to what she knew in the UK. But, now she needs our help, or at least our ideas. As she says,
In a sort of continuation from my last post. One of the things I want to develop here is making rehabilitation equipment from easily available items – well basically rubbish! As well as providing items to use in the hospital, I also want to make things for home use to inspire patients and their families about what they can do. [read the whole post here]
So can you come up with any ideas of how people can improve their mobility through the use of scrap? It’s a bit like Blue Peter really, only there’s nothing much that’s been made earlier.
If you’ve got any bright ideas, or you’d just like to see what the life of a physiotherapist is like in Uganda, go over to her blog – A Physio on a Wander
I know that she’d be really encouraged by any comments, support or suggestions. So feel free to share her posts, or this one, and encourage your friends to get involved too.
