ON Friday, the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre donated some 150 hampers to its outpatients and amputees who attend the clinic.

Jemima Cross, a physiotherapist attached to the clinic, told reporters that the exercise is a means of giving back to the community and assisting those who are vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are basically doing it for our patients, our outpatients and amputee patients… we would like to give back to them with the pandemic going, we just want to do a little bit by giving back to the community,” she stated.

She noted that the distribution exercise was sponsored by the National Commission on Disability (NDC) and the clinic will see several other similar exercises in the future since the rehabilitation centre houses roughly over 200 outpatients and amputees.

Cross added that the clinic also mobilised itself to travel to the various homes of the amputee patients who are unable to come the clinic to uplift their hampers.

“Those that are unable to make it, we will be distributing them by our bus, we will be going around to all our areas to distribute to those who can’t afford come out,” she stated.