April 2009

On April 15th, a day when American traditionally “give ‘til it hurts,” the patients of Ability Prosthetics will be “giving ‘til it helps.”

At noon on April 15th, Ability will donate more than a dozen prosthetic limbs to Physicians for Peace, an international, humanitarian, non-profit, medical education organization dedicated to building peace and international friendships in developing nations. Primarily, Physicians for Peace accomplishes this by addressing with unmet medical needs and scarce resources through:

• Medical education and training,
• Clinical care, and
• Donated medical supplies.

The donated limbs have been collected from Ability’s offices in Frederick, Hagerstown, Gettysburg, Allentown and Philadelphia, and will be handed off to the Physicians for Peace staff at Ability’s Frederick office on Thomas Johnson Drive. Ability’s patients have donated the limbs, which range in price from $10,000 to $30,000 per limb.

Because of the generosity of the patients, limbs that have graced Patrick Street in Frederick, the Dual Highway in Hagerstown or walked the battlefields of Gettysburg will now be worn in Kabul, the Dominican Republic, and other locales. The limbs are being collected for Physicians for Peace’s Walking Free program.

“We always say that we have the best clients in the world,” says Rebecca Rogers, who is coordinating the donations for Ability. “This just proves it! We’re delighted to act as the conduit for the donations, and hope to make this a regular event.”