© ICRC / Boris Heger / 2005 / ru-e-00269
| Grozny, Chechnya. An employee of the ICRC-supported prosthetic/orthotic centre visits a man who has had a leg amputed. Many people injured by mines or by other types of explosive weapons are awaiting treatment. The limb-fitting centre is serving over 1,000 patients, providing them with physical rehabilitation and supplying orthopaedic appliances, but demand is still greater than can be met. In addition to boosting the centre’s capacity and the technical expertise of its staff, the ICRC is expanding its information campaigns on the dangers of mines and explosive remnants of war in a number of communities at risk.
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