The Sangha

The Spinal Injury Sangha Nepal is a registered non-profit society. It seeks to roll back, as far as possible, the despair that is the burden of the victims of spinal injury and their families. While responding to the ‘traditional’ injuries of the spine – mainly resulting from fall from heights – the Sangha also tries to address the increasing incidence of spinal trauma from ‘modern-day’ accidents.

The society’s initial focus is exclusively on running the rehabilitation facility, but in future it will engage in other areas – including public advocacy, developing evacuation procedures, and addressing issues of patient-handling in the absence of specialist care. Over time, the Sangha will also seek to ensure that trauma centres and health posts around the country are better prepared to cater to spinal injury.

In its rehabilitation activity, the Sangha is collaborating with Nepal Disabled Association, which has made the premises at Jorpati available for the Centre.

THE LOGO

The logo of the Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre is a stylised representation of the human spine, in light blue in its original, created by Kathmandu artist Subas Rai