SIRC Introduction, Developments and Importance

1. Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre (SIRC)
Introduction, Developments and
Importance

2. Mission
• To enable persons with spinal injury to realize their rights to live as
independently as possible in their communities,
Through:
• Appropriate physical, social, economic and psychological rehabilitation
measures;
• Advocacy and awareness;
• Training and skills development
Vision
To become a nationally and regionally recognized centre of excellence in
comprehensive spinal injury rehabilitation services, training and research.
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3. How it was initiated ???
• Journalist and Founding chair person Kanak Mani Dixit
suffered severe spinal cord injury from a fall in August
2001. They created the “ Spinal Injury Sangh
Nepal”, a non profit organization.
• Spinal Centre was inaugurated on 7th April 2002
by Sir Edmund Hillary at the Nepal Disabled
Association Compound in Jorpati, Kathmandu.
• They realized that:
The poorer you are the harder you fall
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4. Then ………….?
• A old and Rented Home
• Limited self contributed fund for social work
• Nursing and physiotherapy services only
• 5/7 Staff
• Three patients
• 10 bed capacity
• A renounce concept for rehabilitation
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5. Now ?????
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6. • On 2008, Centre relocated from Jorpati to its own purpose built facility in Kavre.
• Registered with Ministry of Health
• 150 beds rehabilitation centre.
• Worked in collaboration with Bharatpur hospital to start a unit in Chitwan
• Planning to open other rehab units in major parts of Nepal, collaborating with
private and governmental institution.
• Holistic approach of Rehabilitation
• More than 16 hundred people with SCI, rehabilitated
• Specialized in SCI
• More than 100 staff working
• Became a renowned Organization
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Medical Ortho-
Spine surgeon,
Urologist, Plastic
surgery
Physiotherapy
CBR, follow
up and
Home
modification
(Psychological
support, Peer
Counseling Vocational
Training
Social service
Awareness
camps)
Occupational
Therapy
Nursing
Care
Wheelchair
Service
Halfway
Home
OPD
Hydrotherapy
Our
Services

8. If not rehabilitation…….
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What could have happened ?

9. This is how we might
take place
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10. Life threatening condition
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11. Bother for family
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12. Inaccessible
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13. How it became possible ???
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14. Active reintegration
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15. Happy Family
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16. Sports performance
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18. Active sexual life
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19. Financially independent
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20. ADL Independent

21. Management of Bowel and Bladder
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22. Well accessibility
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23. Mentally strong
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24. Our responsibility
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25. Its time to take oath between People with SCI,
DPOs for unity for quality of life towards SCI
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26. Finally what we want