PARAPLEGIC CENTRE
First In South Africa
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter) JOHANNESBURG.
South Africa’s first centre of African paraplegics—people paralysed from the waist down through spinal injuries—will be established soon.
The Johannesburg City Council has leased ground adjoining Baragwanath Hospital to the National Council for the Care of Cripples in South Africa—the prime mover in starting the centre A team of doctors is at present preparing a list of essential requirements for accommodation and equipment. About 50 paraplegics a year are admitted to Baragwanath Hospital with spinal injuries resulting from assaults or accidents. One-third of them are able to return to normal life after treatment—but the others either break down after returning home or have to remain in the hospital. Mr H. J. C. Parker, secretary of the National Council, said: “With- the proper highly specialised medical treatment available today, their lives can be saved. With correct surroundings and opportunity they can to a large extent also be rehabilitated.”
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29714, 6 January 1962, Page 15
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