Physiotherapists not only help people but they actually change people’s lives by assisting them to overcome the limitations of a physical handicap.
Debita Harripersaud, a leading physiotherapist here, says “no textbook can define the effect we have on our patients. To see a patient break out in tears of happiness because he or she was able to walk for the first time in months or to see a patient taken off the life support machine and breathing independently was all the validation needed that I had chosen the right profession.”
Harripersaud, referred to by patients and colleagues as Miss Persaud, recalls her introduction into the world of
