High-tech customised prosthetics for amputees are now available in India at half the price of imported ones that cost upwards of Rs 1.5 lakh.
“We are launching India’s first myoelectric hand, which is controlled by electrical properties of muscles and has thumb rotation and it will cost for less than half the price than branded multinational companies,” says Neeraj Saxena, director, P&O International Pvt. Ltd.
“Not just hands, we develop artificial feet, legs and blades using the advanced technology at affordable prices so it doesn’t burn a hole in the pocket of amputees,” he said.
The makers use expensive 3-D printing technology to get the right shape and fit of the limb. “It would usually take two to three days to have the limb ready in the old fashioned way, but through the 3-D printing technology we get the measurements and make tweaks on computer in a matter of 3 hours,” says Saxena.
Read more of this in a report published in Hindustan Times....
