Clinical Partners
Our clinical partners take on the major workload in supporting patients who require prosthetic and orthotic devices.
Unbroken
“Unbroken” is a term that has been used to describe the resilience of the Ukrainian people in the face of adversity. The term has been used in various contexts, including the name of a national rehabilitation center in Ukraine that provides medical support to patients with war traumas. The center offers a full range of medical support, from emergency and reconstructive surgery, to prosthetics and psychological support. The center’s location within Ukraine is important for both its patients and doctors, as it is the medical hub of all of Ukraine.
Colombo Friend in Need Society (CFINS)
The Colombo Friend-in-Need Society is the oldest charitable organization in Sri Lanka, established in 1831 under the patronage of Governor Sir Edward Barnes. The society aims to provide artificial limbs to individuals who have lost their limbs due to landmines, other explosives, road and train accidents, and illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, and vascular diseases. The society provides a range of services, including prosthetics, hostel facilities, food, physiotherapy, psychological support, and related follow-up services, completely free of charge to all amputees in need.
CCBRT (Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania)
CCBRT is a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) established in 1994. From its roots in small-scale community-based rehabilitation for people with disabilities, CCBRT has grown to become Tanzania’s largest provider of disability and rehabilitation services. Clinical care is just the tip of CCBRT’s work: through extensive training, capacity building and advocacy, the organisation aims to empower people living with disabilities and improve access to medical and rehabilitative treatment across Tanzania. Recognising the critical relationship between quality accessible maternal and newborn health and disability prevention, CCBRT is also engaged in extensive maternal and newborn health activities, including the construction of a specialist maternity hospital, due to open in 2018.
Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services Uganda (CoRSU)
CoRSU was established in 2006 as a private, non-profit, non-governmental organization in Uganda. It is a Ugandan initiative that was encouraged and supported by CBM with the main aim of expanding and improving rehabilitation services for children and people with disabilities. Its primary focus is on children with physical impairments for whom CoRSU provides orthopaedic and plastic/reconstructive surgical interventions and rehabilitation services. CoRSU also operates a Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Programme that identifies, assesses and refers children from villages to the Hospital.
Cambodian School of Prosthetics & Orthotics (CSPO)
Exceed Worldwide is a charity and international development organization that supports people with disabilities who live in poverty in South and Southeast Asia. It does so by training Prosthetic and Orthotic (P&O) professionals and by providing free P&O services. Exceed, with partners, has established Schools of Prosthetics and Orthotics in five countries in South and Southeast Asia, all of which are accredited by the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO). CSPO was the first training facility established by Exceed in 1994, and three public clinics – linked to CSPO and in different Cambodian provinces – provide free, comprehensive physical rehabilitation services to those most in need.
Tanzania Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists (TATCOT)
TATCOT was founded in Moshi in 1981. TATCOT is a supra-regional training centre providing courses in orthopaedic technology in Africa for students from all English-speaking African countries as well as other interested countries. The centre trains orthopaedic clinicians with the knowledge and skills to provide prostheses, orthoses, wheelchairs and supportive seating to people with disabilities, including people with amputations and neuromuscular disorders such as poliomyelitis, paralysis, cerebral palsy, clubfoot and trauma.
About us
Nia Technologies Inc. is a Canadian non-profit social enterprise that develops and deploys innovative digital technologies in low- and mid-income countries.