Gaza’s generation of amputees

Gaza’s generation of amputees

Ismail Abu Omar speaks about Gaza’s rising amputee toll and the resilience of people living with permanent wounds.

Free prosthetics give amputees new hope

SEVEN members of the Western Disabled People’s Association have been given a new lease on life by the Hope Centre in Nadi where they were given new prosthetic limbs. The centre has been assisting amputees for the past three years with the latest group receiving a boost from the Australian government. Hope Centre chairman Sanjit Patel said Fiji’s growing number of diabetic patients called for a much-needed facility that assists amputees. “We have…