BANGLADESH NEWS
DHAKA: A $4.3 million Canadian grant will soon be helping thousands of babies in Bangladesh born with clubfoot.
The
funding from the Canadian International Development Agency will support
a project led by two Universities of British Columbia professors.
The
project will train health workers in Bangladesh to perform low-cost,
non-surgical procedures that involves a series of casts on the ankles of
babies.
Project Leaders Shafique Pirani and Richard Mathais hope
to replicate the success the project had in Uganda, where 1,100
children were saved from a lifetime of hardship.
Dr. Pirani has
helped revive a clubfoot treatment used as far back as 1940 that is
especially helpful to developing countries, where there’s a shortage of
surgeons.
Pirani says he hopes that once the coordinated response
is demonstrated in Bangladesh, more countries will follow and within a
generation the clubfoot will no longer be the global scourge that it is
today.
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