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Girl’s jubilant first steps ever HEILIE COMBRINCK
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;An ecstatic Iviwe Makile (6) after taking her first steps with the walker. She is assisted by physiotherapist Jana Stander.
six year old girl from Uitenhage, last week for the first time in her life, enjoyed what most people take for granted. With the assistance of a Kaye Walker, she took her first ever steps and out of pure excitement even wanted to run! Iviwe Makile was born two months premature and diagnosed as having cerebral palsy with diplegia. “As a result of her medical condition she has experienced delayed development milestones since birth. “Her highest form of mobility up to the age of five years was to learn to crawl. Owing to her condition she could no longer straighten her knees to stand in an upright position,” said Jana Stander a physiotherapist in Uitenhage. A device was donated by the Uitenhage Lions and Leos Clubs to a local physiotherapist business which assists Iviwe with treatment. Iviwe’s mother Vuyokazi Makile was overwhelmed by emotion seeing her child walking with the device. “I want to thank all involved from the bottom of my heart. May God bless them in return. If it were not for this donation and kindness, I would never have enjoyed this moment to see my child so happy,” said Makile. Dr Raju, the child’s general practitioner, recommended physiotherapy resulting in her being taken to Aurora Special Care
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Centre where surgery was performed by Dr D Potgieter, a specialist in paediatric orthopedic surgery. As a consequence of the operation and the follow–up physiotherapy treatment, she has improved to the stage where a Kaye Walker was recommended. According to Lion Denis Murphy, registered physiotherapists S.S. Pieterse & S. Terblanche & J. Stander applied to the Uitenhage Lions Club for a donation to assist them in buying a Kaye Walker for Iviwe. “The motivation of the application is based on the fact that the girl’s coordination of movement is affected which causes paralysis of similar parts on either side of her body,” said Murphy. Both the Uitenhage Lions and Alpha Leo Clubs supported the request and contributed to the donation of the walker which is used at the discretion of the physiotherapists concerned. Stander said, “The walker would assist Iviwe with an improved quality of life, permitting her to attend school and socialize with her peer group in an upright position.” Stander consulted CE Mobility who finalised the child’s measurements for the Kaye Walker. When presented with the walker, the child adapted immediately to the walker. Lion President Barend Erasmus stated with time and practice Iviwe and or any other patient will hopefully overcome similar disabilities and be independent to live their lives to the fullest with the assistance of the walker.
;Representatives of the Uitenhage Lions and Leos Clubs who donated the Kaye Walker (back from left) Giuliano Gottini (Leo), Robbie Effting (Lion), Denis Murphy (Lion) and Shaheen Karodia (Leo). In front are Makhi Mzinyati Kondile, Vuyokazi Makile, Iviwe Makile and Jana Stander.
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