In Story of the Week, we look at the Discovering Hands programme in India <https://newzhook.com/story/22522> under which visually impaired women are being trained to detect breast cancer lumps by touch. This year the programme is being expanded to Bengaluru and Kashmir.
Hasiba, 25 years old, had signed up for a computer training course at the National Association for the Blind Center of Blind Women and Disabilities in 2016 when she heard about the Discovering Hands programme that was soon to be launched. Under the programme, visually impaired women over 20 are trained as medical tactile examiners (MTEs), a role that requires them to detect lumps or nodules in the patient's breasts using their sense of touch. Hasiba, a late blind who once nurtured dreams of becoming a nurse, was instantly drawn to the idea. "At first, I felt very shy and quite uncomfortable about touching the bare bodies of other women. So, to begin with the training involved us touching women through their clothes". Gradually Hasiba got used to the idea and finished the nine-month training programme successfully. Of this, three months were spent interning at the Medanta Hospital. She is now working at the C K Birla Hospital in New Delhi, where there's a large research underway into this project. Read on https://newzhook.com/story/22522 Thanks & Regards Ramya Venkitesh |Head New Initiatives Newz Hook <http://www.newzhook.com/> Newz Hook is now on WhatsApp <https://newzhook.com/whatsapp> Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
