Manual Wheelchairs - World Health Organization

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The introduction to the guidelines: • defines an appropriate wheelchair; • introduces users; 1 inTroducTion … to promote personal mobility and enhance quality of life. • points out the needs for and rights to wheelchairs; • describes the benefits of wheelchairs; • describes basic types of wheelchair and common systems of wheelchair provision; and • describes different stakeholders and their roles in wheelchair provision.
20 I guIdelInes on the provIsIon of manual wheelchaIrs In less resourced settIngs Box 1.1. <strong>Wheelchairs</strong> to enhance quality of life … Testimonial from a user in Afghanistan Zahida lives in Afghanistan, in a tent in her brother’s yard. She became paraplegic in 2001, but has had two children since then. She was referred to a hospital outpatient physiotherapy department in Jalalabad and arrived pushed in a wheelbarrow. The physiotherapists worked with the technicians of a local wheelchair workshop to provide Zahida with a threewheel wheelchair. Without a wheelchair, Zahida could do very little at home without the help of her husband and children. She just lay on the bed. Her wheelchair has enabled her to successfully look after her children in a very rough and hilly compound. Zahida says, “My wheelchair – it is like my feet – I won’t go anywhere without it! With my wheelchair I can cook, make bread, visit the neighbours. When we go to a family wedding in the village I take it with me in the back of the taxi. My older daughter and son help to push me up the steep places.” testimonial
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