Mozambique: India provides $1M in medicines, prosthetic limbs

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Mozambique: India provides $1M in medicines, prosthetic limbs

5:00 CAT | 26 Jun 2025

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India has provided Mozambique with $1 million in medicines and 1,200 prosthetic limbs as part of a physical rehabilitation campaign to restore dignity to amputees, the health minister announced on Tuesday.

“We are here to deliver around 1,200 lower limb prostheses to the Mozambican people, to the patients who need them most,” announced Health Minister Ussene Isse, speaking during the official launch ceremony for the prosthesis donation campaign in Maputo.

The initiative, supported by the Indian organisation Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), is part of the “India for Humanity” programme, which marks 50 years of Mozambique’s independence and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The Mozambican minister stressed that the campaign represents “a new beginning” for hundreds of citizens who lost their mobility due to diseases such as diabetes or road accidents.

“Above all, it represents the restoration of hope, dignity and a sense of belonging,” he said.

Inauguração do acampamento Jaipur Foot (colocação de membros artificiais) em Maputo, em parceria com o Ministro da Saúde de Moçambique, Dr. Ussene Hilario Isse. Financiado pelo Governo da Índia, o acampamento fornecerá membros artificiais a cerca de 1.200 beneficiários. https://t.co/QWOhaBrIot

— India in Mozambique (@IndiainMoz) June 24, 2025

Over the next 60 days, the orthopaedic centre at Maputo Central Hospital will host a physical and social rehabilitation programme with the support of specialist technicians from the BMVSS organisation.

The Indian minister for foreign affairs and the environment, Shri Kirti Vardhan, who was present at the ceremony, considered that the gesture “demonstrates India’s spirit of solidarity” with Mozambique.

“I would like to thank the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti organisation for offering these prostheses, and also the India for Humanity programme,” he said.

According to the director of Maputo Central Hospital, Mouzinho Saíde, Mozambique has 11 orthopaedic centres, and the provinces of Manica and Maputo will establish their centres in the future.

In that unit alone, the team saw 1,007 new patients in 2024.

“Of these 1,007 people, 175 had amputation problems,” Mouzinho Saíde explained, adding that the remaining cases were related to neurological, orthopaedic or traumatological diseases.

Source: Lusa