Veterans with amputated upper extremities were provided with the latest generation of prostheses
Our veterans with amputated upper extremities have also been provided with high-tech prostheses. Minister of Labor and Social Protection Sahil Babayev attended an event to provide veterans with prostheses at the Prosthetic and Orthopedic Production and Rehabilitation Center and met with a group of veterans provided with the latest generation prostheses.
The Minister said that the Azerbaijani Army under the leadership of President, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev wrote a glorious page of our history in the Patriotic War last year. Demonstrating unprecedented combat readiness, he won a great victory and liberated our lands from the occupation of Armenia, which lasted for almost 30 years.
Babayev said that 1,500 veterans were served in the ministry's rehabilitation centers during the post-war period. He noted that about 1,000 people with disabilities from the First and Second Karabakh Wars were provided with more than 9,100 rehabilitation aids, and 850 people, mostly veterans, were provided with motorized wheelchairs.
He said that our soldiers and officers wounded in the April 2016 battles were provided with high-tech products by German, Icelandic and British companies known as modern prosthetic manufacturers within a special project implemented by the Foundation on the initiative of First Vice President, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva. were provided.
By the relevant order of President Ilham Aliyev, a workshop for the production of high-tech prostheses has been established at the Prosthetic and Orthopedic Production and Rehabilitation Center in recent years in cooperation with OTTO BOKK (Germany), one of the world's leading prosthetic manufacturers. Thus, shortly after the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, in December 2020, work is underway to provide war invalids with high-tech, electronic prostheses. More than 145 servicemen from more than 180 amputated veterans have been provided with high-tech, the latest 4th generation modern prostheses.
Relevant measurements have recently been taken from 29 amputated amputations with the help of specialists from the Russian office of the Icelandic company OSSUR, and they have been provided with high-tech prostheses. Even today, veterans provided with high-tech prostheses are people whose upper limbs have been amputated and who have also been given the latest generation of prostheses.
