SERVICES

MAP offers its services through outreach, institutional and orthopaedic and beside that it has workshops in all four units and a Rehabilitation Technicians School.  

The outreach consists of teams in the four units each team consists of a physiotherapist, rehabilitation assistant, and a workshop technician.  When a team arrives at a centre, patients are first assessed by the physiotherapist, and the right treatment is prescribed.  If an appliance is measured, the measurements are taken by the workshop technician to the workshop for the manufacture of the appliances.  

The institutional service is the Kachere Rehabilitation Centre where people with various disabilities are admitted and receive intensive physiotherapy and occupational therapy.  

The surgical section is comprised of one orthopaedic surgeon in Blantyre and an orthopaedic clinical officer in Lilongwe.  These two people do orthopaedic surgery on the patients referred to them by MAP then after the procedures they are handed back to the physiotherapists to continue with their rehabilitation work. 

The Rehabilitation Technicians School is there to produce the middle class type of personnel, as the country does not have enough physiotherapists.  This school will soon be upgraded to a diploma level and will be handed over to the college of medicine under the faculty of rehabilitation but still it will be administered by MAP. 

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