Shafaqat Special School /Rehabilitation Center (SRC)

Serves the needs of & promotes advocacy of physically challenged.

Shafaqat Rehabilitation Center (SRC) at Voluntary Medicare Society is a specialty medical rehabilitation center providing physical and cognitive rehabilitation services. With about 40 years of experience with physically challenged, Voluntary Medicare Society has realized that a challenged person can be restored to a condition from where he/she can live independently and maximize to restore normal life with a comprehensive post health care management. This thought lead to the foundation of Shafaqat Rehabilitation Centre in the year 2007. The program is run under consultation of one of its primary members who has a spinal injury himself and has been in a wheelchair since 1987. SRC is a piece taken from his experience as a spinal injured person and his recovery and complete rehabilitation at the National Spinal Injuries Center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in UK. The program demystifies the realities of living in the community by addressing not just the medical but practical, emotional and social concerns of the people. Issues like relationships, security and confidentiality particularly in terms of partners, private space, children and parental roles are discussed in detail. SRC provides several rehabilitation services. These services are offered to the in-patients and out-patients equally. It takes pride in pioneering the use of Hydro therapy, Peaderiatic Developmental therapy and CAM therapy in the state thus catering to the needs of people suffering from chronic ailments prevalent at large in the society like Spinal Injuries, arthritis, osteoporosis, Parkinson etc.