By Anju Mahmood | Office Manager
Rickets is an entirely preventable and treatable condition, especially in the early stages. It requires modification in nutrition to include more calcium and vitamin D in the diet and initially a short course of calcium tablets. Unfortunately the majority of children with the disease are from poor and illiterate households in rural areas. The families often do not know the cause and that it is a treatable condition. Fearful of incurring high costs from attending local hospitals and clinics, families spend years hoping their children's bowed legs will somehow get better on their own. Meanwhile children start feeling a lot of pain as the softening of bones continues in other parts of the body such as the spine.
Hope Foundation has a partnership with a french rehabilitation charity called KDM. They will help to rehabilitate patients suffering from rickets after surgery and will help to identify candidates for surgery.
Hope Foundation is also planning an outreach program to educate and inform villagers about this disease and how to prevent it. Calcium tablets will be distributed to poor households.
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