Tamil Nadu Chief Minister inaugurated ‘Vizhuthugal – One Stop Centre’, set up at Kannagi Nagar in Sholinganallur, Chennai.
It provides health-related rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities.
This is established by the Department for the Welfare of Differently Abled Persons and is part of a World Bank-assisted T.N. Rights Project.
A total of 273 such centres are to be established under the project.
This is the first time in India that rehabilitation professionals of special education, optometry, audiology and speech therapy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and psychological counselling are coming under one single roof.