Researchers from faculties across the University have won more than £900,000 in funding for a project to improve access to artificial limbs in lower and middle income countries.
The ambitious 3-year project will see two studies carried out in Cambodia, Southeast Asia, with the aim of developing digital tools to improve access to prosthetic and orthotic (P&O) services, train clinicians and ensure funding is spent more efficiently.
About 100 million people worldwide need prosthetics (artificial limbs) or orthotic devices (braces and splints), but an estimated eighty to ninety per cent of those do not have access to P&O services because of a shortage of personnel, service units and health rehabilitation infrastructures.
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