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Jammu and Kashmir: Indian Army's Rising Star Corps provides artificial limbs to disabled persons in Samba, Kathua districts

| @indiablooms | Nov 09, 2021, at 11:29 pm

Jammu/UNI: Indian Army's ‘Rising Star Corps’ on Tuesday organised a medical camp for the fitment of Artificial Limbs to the disabled persons of Samba and Kathua districts in Jammu and Kashmir.

Lt Gen P N Ananthanarayanan, GOC, Rising Star Corps handed over the Artificial Limbs to the 26 differently abled persons of Samba and Kathua districts.

Brig S S Chhillar, Commander, Rising Star Bayonets, DC Kathua, Rahul Yadav, SSP Kathua, R C Kotwal, Anil (President Municipal Committee Nagri Parole) and other dignitaries including the locals were present during the medical camp. The initiative is aimed at helping the partially/fully incapacitated persons and facilitate them in their daily routine making their lives better.

The GOC interacted with locals and assured them for additional military civic action projects in the region in the future as well.

The director Tarun Kumar Kulshreshtha and team members Nitika Chopra and Sanjeet Kumar of Gurgaon based College Park Healthcare Ltd helped in executing the project.

Social distancing norms were maintained during the Medical Camp. The locals and specially the disabled persons expressed deep gratitude towards the Indian Army for undertaking this noble initiative making their lives comfortable.

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