Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
  • 2 Faculty of Hospitality, Tourism, and Wellness, University Malaysia Kelantan, City Campus, Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan
  • 3 Department of Neuroscience, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan
  • 4 Orthopedic Department, Universiti Sains Malaysia Hospital, Kelantan
  • 5 School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang
Malays J Med Sci, 2017 Oct;24(5):106-111.
PMID: 29386978 MyJurnal DOI: 10.21315/mjms2017.24.5.12

Abstract

The incidence of lower limb amputation is high across the globe and continues to be a major threat to morbidity and mortality. Consequently, the provision of high quality and effective prosthetics services have been known as an essential component for a successful rehabilitation outcome. In Malaysia, amputation prevalence has been increasing in which several main components of service delivering aspects (such as service intervention, prosthetic personnel) should be anticipated to accommodate for the increasing demand. This article highlights the hurdles experienced in providing prosthetic services in Malaysia from multiple aspects such as financial burden to acquire the prosthesis and lack of expertise to produce quality prosthesis. This paramount issues consequently justify for the urgency to carry out national level survey on the current statistics of lower limb amputation and to ascertain the available workforce to provide a quality prosthetics services. Only with accurate and current information from the national survey, strategies and policies aimed at enhancing the outcome from prosthetics services can be achieved.

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