LEGS - LeTourneau University Empowering Global Solutions

East Africa

In East Africa, the LEGS team has had a relationship with AIC-CURE International for five years. AIC-CURE International Children’s Hospital fits both children and adults in need of above-knee prosthetic devices, and has done so since 1998. The LEGS team has fitted dozens of patients at AIC-CURE with LEGS technology, and has started to teach local clinicians how to manufacture the LEGS M1 Knee as the technology has improved.  During the time spent in Kenya this past summer, the team held a Technology Demonstration. This is different from a workshop in that they only presented the LEGS technology package, as the local clinics did not have a chance to produce their own knees. This approach was due in part to the limited amount of time the team had available to spend in Kenya, as well as the large number of people attending the demonstration. Fifteen (15) different people from seven different entities attended the demonstration. The attendees were from other parts of Kenya and other countries in East Africa. Many were interested in implementing LEGS technology in their clinics, but the LEGS team did not have enough time or resources to visit other sites.