(Rivista Internazionale - December 1996: Charitable Activities
of the
French Association - 4/7)
• Functional rehabilitation, specialist visits, nursing care:
* kinesitherapy in bedrooms, gymnasium, swimming pool, ergotherapy, psychomotor therapy, speech training;
* psychology, social assistance, home adaptation studies;
* technical aids;
| 1994 | 1995 | 1996 previsioni | |
| No departmental units | 18 | 23 | 25 |
| No certificated issued | 896 | 1.300 (+45%) | 1.800 |
| No national instructors | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| No first - aid teachers | 54 | 77 (+42%) | 85 |
| No active first - aid staff | 309 | 398 (+29%) | 450 |
| No first - aid posts staffed | 137 | 181 (+32%) | 210 |
• Vocational rehabilitation:
* initiation in information technology on IBM computers, vocational training for some
* language laboratory for others.
Familial rehabilitation
• Early release from hospital.
• Acceptance of accident victim and spouse.
• Playing down disability and search for new codes of communication.
• Organisation of services to be entrusted to third parties.
• Conjugal and familial reconstruction.
• Home adaptation study.
• Preparation for life outside.
Research and development
• All the European programmes involving the development of new technologies for the disabled are attentively followed.
• Permanent contacts with our European Union partners to organise exchanges of both the disabled and health workers.
• Research into adaptations for helping the disabled to enter companies using robotics.
Language laboratory
• For creating exchanges with other European institutions.
• For disseminating our studies and reflection to the international press.
• For rediscovering the joy of communication and work.
• For becoming interpreters, the Mutuelles du Mans are installing a language laboratory with six work stations.
Maison Saint-Jean de Malte 56-60 rue d'Hautpoul 75019 Paris Tel. 01.53.19.21.21
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| Benin. The hospital financed by the French Association. |
ACTIVITIES
Medicines
The Order of Malta's French Hospitaller Works have been involved in sending medicines and medical supplies for over
23 years. Some medicines are purchased, others are given by laboratories, but the majority are those which have not been used, collected in pharmacies or in the wholesalers distributors all over France. The medicines are sorted in 70 centres, generally staffed by
volunteers.
Open packages, half-full boxes and all medicines with an expiry date of less than six months are first sorted and then discarded. The remaining medicines are divided into two categories: expiry date from six months to one year and those of over a year. The former are reserved for the East European countries and the latter are sent out of Europe.
Pharmacists do a second sorting, discarding some products with export limitations and the so-called palliative medicines, useless for recipients. The other usable medicines are sorted by class of treatment.
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