Report on ICRC technical orthopaedic programme for war disabled.
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Introduction In 1994, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had been engaged in sixteen countries on behalf of war amputees and other disabled. Among these countries, three new programmes have started in Iraq, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Whereas the programme of Colombia has been completed at the end of the year and handed over to the ICRC counterpart. During the year, 14,986 prostheses and orthoses have been manufactured for 10,221 disabled. A large majority of these disabled have been injured by mines.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Prosthetics and orthotics international
دوره 20 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996