Dollies and Teddy Bears were delivered to children at Shraddha Hospital in India by doctors from Aloha Medical Mission. Â This very special little girl, eight year old Niyati Nayak, arrived at the hospital with her parents who had read an advertisement that prosthetic hands would be provided and fitted to hand amputees at no charge. Â Their daughter Niyati had been born with a left arm that ended slightly below her elbow. Â That day, Niyati was fitted with a LN-4 prosthetic hand, and right afterwards she was handed her very own Dollie!
Aloha Medical Mission told us that to the best of their knowledge, the LN-4 prosthetic hands they brought with them were the first functional hands provided free of charge to persons throughout India. Â We asked how it works: “The fitting itself is much like putting on a sock over the residual limb. Â There is no surgery or any medical procedure involved. Â The fitting mostly consists of adjusting strapping to ensure that the hand will stay on the residual limb. Â Once fitted, if the amputee has one good hand she is able to take the fitted hand off and put it back on in about 30 seconds simply by loosening/tightening one Velcro strap. Â The LN-4 hand cost less than $50.00, is resistant to both dust and water vapor, and weighs less than one pound.”
Thank you to Palisadians Dr. Margie Fine and her husband Arthur Fine, for serving as Dollie Ambassadors for Aloha Medical Mission.
