INDIA’S PM MODI LEADS DISTRIBUTION OF ARTIFICIAL LIMBS

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday afternoon graced the distribution of 150 free prosthetic limbs to poor Filipino amputees at a museum beside Philippine General Hospital in Manila.

Ten soldiers wounded in Marawi would be among the recipients. They were, however, not allowed to leave camp for yesterday’s event.

The event was organized by Mahaveer Philippine Foundation Inc. The artificial limbs, called Jaipur Foot, were designed in India but made by Filipino workers.

Modi was welcomed by the foundation head, Veerendra Mehta, Manila’s former fifth district councilor, Felix Espiritu, and Enrique Lim. Media coverage was not allowed during Modi’s brief stay in the museum.

Espirutu said that the foundation had been giving away free prosthetic limbs to Filipino amputees for the past 28 years.

“It is a low-cost, rapid-fit limb comsmetically close to a normal human limb. It permits patients to walk, run, climb, squat, and swim,” according to a statement distributed by the foundation.