More than 200 peo­ple await­ing pros­thet­ic limbs are ex­pect­ed to ben­e­fit from the open­ing of the Na­tion­al Pros­thet­ics Cen­tre at Clarke Road, Pe­nal, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe said yes­ter­day, as he de­scribed the fa­cil­i­ty as a ma­jor mile­stone in strength­en­ing health­care ser­vices in T&T.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, in whose con­stituen­cy the cen­tre is lo­cat­ed, said it would not on­ly ben­e­fit lo­cals, but the plan is to ex­pand the ser­vices to Cari­com ter­ri­to­ries.

Speak­ing at the launch of the cen­tre, es­tab­lished through a part­ner­ship in­volv­ing the Gov­ern­ment of In­dia and Jaipur Foot USA, Bo­doe said the fa­cil­i­ty would help ad­dress the grow­ing de­mand for pros­thet­ic ser­vices while im­prov­ing long-term care and re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion for am­putees.