Guyana now equipped to produce issuance metal prosthesis, orthotics

Staff at the National Orthotic and Prosthetic Appliance Workshop at the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre have benefited from a one-week training session conducted by the California based company Prosthetika.

Prosthetika is a non-profit organisation that provides prosthetic, orthotic, and rehabilitation training and assistance in areas where such services are lacking.

According to a Department of Public Information (DPI) release, a team comprising Jon Batzdorff, Director of Prosthetika along with London-based, David Nicholas, Ian Carrick of RSF International Incorporated of Canada and England-based Laura Burgess, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist were in Guyana from April 9-13.

Senior Technician of the National Orthotic and Prosthetic Appliance Workshop, Collin Charles, said that the team assisted with “manufacturing and demonstrating how to construct a different type of design socket.”

Charles explained that the new socket differs vastly from that which the workshop currently produces, which is the quadrilateral socket.

The workshop which produces roughly over 100 prosthesis and orthosis limbs now have staff who are trained to produce the issuance metal container socket.