The Physiotherapy Department: Improving the lives of the injured, hearing impaired and others

Dr Ruth Quaicoe

Easter Monday last year was a day that changed 31-year-old Niveta Deen’s life when a family outing at a creek on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway turned ugly when she was hit by a car as she attempted to cross the road.

Deen is not one to dwell on that day or even the 11 months when she was bedridden because of a broken left leg and arm, and prefers to talk about another life-changing experience she had exactly one year after the accident when she visited the Physiotherapy Department of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

On the first day she went to the department in April she did so in a wheelchair, but following work with those from the department she quickly graduated to a walker and today she is using a