Rana Plaza survivors still getting free treatment from CRP

The Centre for Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) has been providing treatment to the critically injured survivors of the Rana Plaza building collapse.
"We have so far received some 502 seriously injured victims, and around 50 per cent of them are still getting our services, especially physiotherapy from our centre" said an official at the CRP centre.
The CRP has been supporting the injured victims since the accident providing them costly medical treatments, mostly funded by local and international donors worth almost Tk 32.5 million.
Many victims getting treatment at CRP have lost their limbs.
Many spinal cord injured also took treatment from the centre and still most of them are taking different kinds of therapy from the CRP.
The CRP is also providing stretcher and artificial limbs to the victims.
Of the victims, 19 are amputation patients, 46 spinal cord injuries registered for treatment and are taking therapy from CRP, a high official said.
The CRP has also opened vocational training centre for the paralysed people and also for the victims who received artificial limbs.
The CRP delivered cosmetic hand to five people and fitted artificial legs to five people who are receiving training at the vocational training centre.
At present a total of 33 victims of Rana Plaza are receiving training on dress making and tailoring, animal husbandry, general electronics, shop management and computer literacy.
Earlier, 239 victims also received training on the same subjects.
The CRP has created employment opportunity for 132 victims.