Rehabilitation

MAITRI Physical Rehabilitation programme has been operating in the 24 provinces of Gaya District since 1993.
MAITRI currently provides physiotherapy care for leprosy patients at its centre near Dhandwa village, Bodhgaya.
MAITRI has extended its physical rehabilitation programme to poorer children with disabilities in the area since September, 2004.
MAITRI provides free medical care, surgery, postoperative physiotherapy, orthopedic aid to the programme patients.
MAITRI physical rehabilitation programme uses the services of a doctor and a hospital who specialise in the treatment of disabilities.

MAITRI has successfully rehabilitated to date 48 leprosy disabled cases and 4 children affected by polio and other disabilities.
The majority of disabled patients come from the lower and poorer castes.
MAITRI provides free service to the patients.

MAITRI will continue providing facilities and professional assistance to people affected by leprosy-related disabilities and by other types of disabilities for their rehabilitation.
With your support disabled patients from lower and impoverished castes in rural areas can continue to receive rehabilitative assistance.
With your support disabled patients, who currently do not have access to MAITRI's rehabilitation programme, will acquire a fundamental right - the right to have access to rehabilitative treatment....
MAITRI feels it is essential that the current service offered to people in the area of Gaya District be maintained and developed....... with your help it can become a reality...