Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, December 5

The Bharat Vikas Parishad Charitable Trust, Punjab, observed International Day of Persons with Disabilities by organising a free artificial limbs distribution camp at Viklang Sahayta Kender.

Artificial limbs, calipers, crutches and hearing aids were given to 40 persons with disabilities.

Narinder Mittal, president of the Ludhiana unit of the Bharat Vikas Parishad Charitable Trust, Punjab, presided over the function. He said the trust has organised 1,494 camps in which more than 61,305 persons with disabilities have benefitted in various ways. As many as 2,855 operations have been done till date, which were 100 per cent successful.