CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The team will be setting up a camp in Damascus, Syria to provide 600 artificial limbs to amputees in 42 ensuing days.

Detailed explanation-2: -In India, the Jaipur foot can be fitted for free by Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), a charitable organization for amputees and other disabled people founded by Devendra Raj Mehta. The government of India supports BMVSS with financial aid to carry out the work done by the organization.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Jaipur Foot is the largest organization of prosthetic devices, which dramatically changes the lives of many amputees. One of the most technologically advanced enterprises in the world, it serves the poorest in society and was named by Time Magazine as one of the 50 best inventions in the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pramod Karan Sethi (28 November 1927 – 6 January 2008) was an Indian orthopaedic surgeon. With Ram Chandra Sharma, he co-invented the “Jaipur foot", an inexpensive and flexible artificial limb, in 1969.

Detailed explanation-5: -The artificial body parts manufactured with the help of the Jaipur foot technology have made it easy for the differently abled to walk bare-foot on rough surfaces, run, go cycling, work in the fields, climb trees, and even climb mountains, etc.