Materia Medica Malaysiana

Bakti to raise awareness on rehab medicine for disabilities

KUALA LUMPUR: In a move to raise awareness about the disabled, Bakti (the Association of Wives of Ministers and Deputy Ministers) is setting up the Malaysian Information Network on Disabilities (MIND).
The Bakti-MIND project, aimed at providing information on rehabilitation medicine and its importance, will involve collaboration with the Malaysian Association of Rehabilitation Medicine (MARM).
MARM president Assoc Prof Datuk Dr Zaliha Omar said a website would be created under the project and relevant information would also be sent out to the public once the project is launched next year.
“We want the public to know that the disabled can be independent and that we want them to be independent so that they can also contribute to society,” she said.