Paraplegic Centre Peshawar providing jobs to patients alongside treatment

PESHAWAR: Paraplegic Centre Peshawar, a hospital that used to charge patients the equivalent of 5 tolas of gold, now offers free treatment and sometimes jobs to patients.

The only hospital in Pakistan where patients are a ray of hope for each other and sometimes the patient gets a job.

Paraplegic Center Peshawar is a unique medical facility where differently-abled people feel that they are also part of society.

Differently-abled patients in Paraplegic Center Peshawar are a ray of hope for each other. Female patients go home after recovery, and then they go home only after being taught skills. Sometimes the patient is also given a job.

Peshawar Paraplegic Center, a decades-old hospital established in the posh area of ​​the provincial capital of Peshawar, Hayatabad Phase 4, where only disabled patients were supporting each other.

The differently-abled people are treated for spinal cord pain as well as psychological treatment. The special thing about this hospital is that its own patients become a ray of hope and support for each other.

The Paraplegic Center Peshawar is the oldest and largest facility in Pakistan where Spinal Cord Injury, Post Polio Survivors and Spina Bifida sufferers are provided with all facilities, techniques, state-of-the-art artificial aids, treatment of bedsores and comprehensive physical, psychological and social rehabilitation. At the medical facility, those people who are using wheelchairs and have physical disabilities are taught to live with dignity and active lives.

Dozens of patients get benefits from here every week and when they go back to their homes and cities, they become an active part of society and play their role in the development of the country. They do all their own work and are not a burden to anyone.

When a patient leaves the medical centre after recovery, he is called a graduate.

In a special conversation with a News360 correspondent, Irfan, a graduate engineer of this hospital, said that we had a dangerous accident on the way to Islamabad, which later brought me to this hospital.

He said, “I really felt that now I have no place in this society and will have to live as a burden on the society, but the way Paraplegic Center Peshawar treated us physically and psychologically, and taught us how to live life, I really feel now that I also have a place in this society.”

He further said, “Alhamdulillah, I am now living a good life and not only work in Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) Peshawar Center but also come here to the hospital and do voluntary counselling for patients.”