Punjab Prime Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif, has launched a project to provide artificial limbs, headphones, wheelchairs and other value devices for value of RS1 billion to people with different capacities in the province. More than 300 special people from all Punjab attended the opening ceremony, the CM said that the beneficiaries will receive rollers, tricycles, manuals, electric and motor wheelchairs, walkers, mobile bathrooms, pillows, headphones and artificial limbs according to their needs."
She said "Punjab has become the first province in Pakistan in having the ability to rehabilitate disabled people and make their lives as active as normal people through bionic technology."
She added, "The most expensive artificial extremities of the world made with bionic technology have the ability to move according to brain signs."
Prime Minister Maryam Nawaz adjusted to Sohail, six years old, who had lost his arm under the elbow to an electric shock, with an artificial arm developed through technology. The artificial arm moves automatically when it receives signals from the brain. The boy moved his hand for the first time after the accident, and expressed his happiness applauding. Prime Minister Maryam Nawaz shake his hand to Sohail and gave him a maximum. The main minister also presided over a meeting to review the acquisition and recovery of loans under the APNI Chhat housing program, Apna Ghar. In view of the public interest, a proposal was considered to include more commercial banks in the housing scheme at the meeting. The participants were informed in an informative session that 28,219 families had received interest -free loans worth 30 billion in five months. More than 23,500 houses are in their final completion stages under the program.
