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Army Hospital in New Delhi opened the Early Intervention Center “Prayas”

Early Intervention Center “Prayas”: At Army Hospital (Research and Referral) in the nation’s capital, a model “Early Intervention Centre- Prayas” has been built with the goal of easing suffering and fostering confidence in parents while dealing with children who have special needs. The Early Intervention Centre is a vast, cutting-edge facility specifically created for kids with exceptional needs.

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Early Intervention Center “Prayas”: Key Points

  • This project will have a significant positive impact on children of military members up to age six who have difficulties such as autism, cerebral palsy, sleep and language delays, and other conditions.
  • General Manoj Pande, Chief of the Army Staff, and Archana Pande, President of the Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA), opened the Center at the Army Hospital (R&R).
    Surg Vice Admiral Rajat Datta, Director General of the Armed Forces Medical Service, also attended the ceremony (DGAFMS).
  • The newly established Center offers therapeutic services like special education, sensory integration occupational and physiotherapy, behaviour modification, and nutritional counselling, as well as advanced screening for hearing and visual defects, autism detection, and clinical identification of various syndromes.
  • Vatsalya, a paediatric superspeciality discipline that has been updated with a kid-friendly Walt Disney motif, is integrated with it.
  • To improve the abilities of special children, a multidisciplinary approach incorporating the skills of many therapists will be used.

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  • Chief of the Army Staff: General Manoj Pande
  • President of the Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA): Archana Pande

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