2023
LFL Prosthetic Centre continued regular clinic sessions throughout 2023, with strict COVID-19 assessment protocols in place for patients, staff and volunteers.
The Members of the LFL Management Committee (LFLMC) for the 2022-2024 term are as follows:
Sis. Toh Su Mei, Chairperson
Bro. Lim Ah Bah
Bro. Lee Lean Hock
Sis. Cheong Pooi Wah
Bro. Danny Liew Chee Khuen, Ex-Officio
Bro. Chang Hong Yun has extended legal support to LFLMC since 2021.
LFL Prosthetic Centre continued regular clinic sessions throughout 2023, with strict COVID-19 assessment protocols in place for patients, staff and volunteers.
TOTAL NUMBER OF PROSTHESES MADE AS AT 31.12.23 is 346.
(including castings of 1st prostheses and re-castings of 2nd, 3rd and so forth prostheses but excluding Hip Prostheses and re-castings of sockets only)
TOTAL NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL SOCKETS MADE AS AT 31.12.23 is 79
Note: ** Made by Penang Mobile Clinic in 2016 + 2019 and currently serviced by LFLPC
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have contributed to LFLPC since 2014. The monies received have been used to provide free limbs to the underprivileged amputees regardless of their race and religion. For 2023, we would also like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to individual donors for their generous donations of items for clinic use, in particular the continued donation of Alltest Covid-19 test kits used to ensure the health and safety of all patients, staff and volunteers.
We would also like to thank all the doctors and volunteers who have served LFLPC since 2014, without whom we would not have been able to serve the Malaysian amputee community.
Collaboration with Rotary Club Shah Alam for Subang Jaya Medical Centre’s (SJMC) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme
LFLPC was invited by Rotary Club Shah Alam (RCSA) to collaborate with their programme with SJMC’s CSR department. For LFLPC, this entails the referral of SJMC’s orthopaedic patients from their CSR programme, i.e., those who require prosthetic lower limbs but are unable to afford them from the commercial sector, or unable to access assistance from government agencies or insurance companies. LFLPC was invited with other organisations to visit the relevant medical departments and meet the doctors responsible at SJMC in April 2023. The RCSA and SJMC CSR project runs from 1 December 2023 to 30 November 2024.
Visit to Prostheses Foundation, Chiang Mai
Several members of the LFL Management Committee, together with members of BUBS and Uttama Bodhi Buddhist Society (UBBS) paid a cordial visit to The Prostheses Foundation HRH The Princess Mother in Chiang Mai, who was instrumental in the setting up of LFLPC, as part of the UBBS Kathina trip to Chiang Mai on 16 November 2023. The trip was organised by UBBS and the group was received by the Foundation’s Secretary-General Clinical Professor Niwes Nantachit and his team for a genial introduction and a short tour of their facilities. With grateful appreciation to the Prostheses Foundation for hosting the visit which was aimed at fostering a closer relationship between our organisations.
2022
We are pleased to announce that LFL Prostheses Centre has reopened, and we have resumed our Saturday clinic sessions as usual from January 2022.
To ensure everyone's safety, we have Covid-19 protocols in place. All staff, volunteers and patients are required to be fully vaccinated, and all are required to do a Covid-19 RTK self-test before entering our premises.
We are pleased to announce that LFL Prostheses Centre has reopened, and we have resumed our Saturday clinic sessions as usual from January 2022.
To ensure everyone's safety, we have Covid-19 protocols in place. All staff, volunteers and patients are required to be fully vaccinated, and all are required to do a Covid-19 RTK self-test before entering our premises.
2021
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, LFL Prostheses Centre remained closed for the year.
However, LFL Prostheses Centre was invited to record a digital presentation on our services for the 12th Annual Malaysian Rehabilitation Medicine Conference: Gathering Forces To Enable The Disabled, Go Virtual! The event was held online from 3/9/2021 to 3/10/2021.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, LFL Prostheses Centre remained closed for the year.
However, LFL Prostheses Centre was invited to record a digital presentation on our services for the 12th Annual Malaysian Rehabilitation Medicine Conference: Gathering Forces To Enable The Disabled, Go Virtual! The event was held online from 3/9/2021 to 3/10/2021.
2019
The following activities took place in 2019:
24H Run (26 to 27 January 2019)
Caring Mom’s 2019 Spark Joy Garage Sales (2 February 2019)
Sustainable Prosthetic Care Solutions Workshop (SPECS) & Visit to LFL Prostheses Centre’s Facilities (March 2019)
Visitation from Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya’s Engineering Students (April 2019)
2019 Penang Mobile Clinic by The Prostheses Foundation of H.R.H. The Princess Mother (12 to 18 May 2019)
Caring Mom’s 2019 Mega Health Carnival (22 to 23 June 2019)
Focus Group Discussion by Aufa Intelligence Sdn Bhd on Research Support System to Caregiver of Disabled Persons (1 August 2019)
B.Braun’s 2019 Charity Run Cheque Presentation Ceremony (6 September 2019)
Tunku Abdul Rahman University College Student’s Visit (16 November 2019)
1st International Conference on Orthotics and Prosthetics 2019 (20 to 21 November 2019)
The following activities took place in 2019:
24H Run (26 to 27 January 2019)
Caring Mom’s 2019 Spark Joy Garage Sales (2 February 2019)
Sustainable Prosthetic Care Solutions Workshop (SPECS) & Visit to LFL Prostheses Centre’s Facilities (March 2019)
Visitation from Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya’s Engineering Students (April 2019)
2019 Penang Mobile Clinic by The Prostheses Foundation of H.R.H. The Princess Mother (12 to 18 May 2019)
Caring Mom’s 2019 Mega Health Carnival (22 to 23 June 2019)
Focus Group Discussion by Aufa Intelligence Sdn Bhd on Research Support System to Caregiver of Disabled Persons (1 August 2019)
B.Braun’s 2019 Charity Run Cheque Presentation Ceremony (6 September 2019)
Tunku Abdul Rahman University College Student’s Visit (16 November 2019)
1st International Conference on Orthotics and Prosthetics 2019 (20 to 21 November 2019)
24H Run (26 to 27 January 2019)
LFL Prostheses Centre was invited once again by the organizers of the 2019 24H Run to be the sole recipient of the donations collected from the run. This is the 4th consecutive year that LFL Prostheses Centre has been chosen as the sole beneficiary. The event was held at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS) on 26 January 2019 with the flag-off time at 14:00 hours. The run ended on 27 January 2019 at 14:00 hours. For every km distance covered, a sum of RM2.40 was collected from the donors. For the 2019 event, based on the total distance covered of 7,567.297 km by approximately 82 participants, the final total sum collected was RM24,098.50.
Caring Mom’s 2019 Spark Joy Garage Sales (2 February 2019)
LFL Prostheses Centre was invited by CARING MOMS group to set up a booth at their 1st Spark Joy Garage Sales on 2 February 2019 at Sunway Nexis to create awareness about the dangers of diabetes and also to promote our services to the public. CARING MOMS is a unique platform for mothers’ entrepreneurial development. The platform is built from the ground up to economically empower women alike. They have a network of about 70,000 on their social media platform (Facebook) and it is an opportunity for LFL Prostheses Centre to create awareness and advertise its services for free.
Sustainable Prosthetic Care Solutions Workshop (SPECS) & Visit to LFL Prostheses Centre’s Facilities (March 2019)
LFL Prostheses Centre was invited to attend the above workshop by Dr. Nooranida Arifin, Senior Lecturer from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at University of Malaya. The workshop was conducted by University of Malaya, University Putra Malaysia and University of Bath, United Kingdom on 12 March 2019. The workshop aimed to investigate Malaysia’s demand for lower limb prosthetic care services and components. A visit to LFL Prostheses Centre was made by Dr. Nooranida Ariffin together with 5 visitors from University of Bath and Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia on 13 March 2019.
Visit from Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya’s Engineering Students (April 2019)
Dr. Nooranida Arifin (Senior Lecturer from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at University of Malaya) requested for the permission of LFL Prostheses Centre for her students to visit our facilities and also to observe our prostheses casting sessions to enable them to learn more about prostheses making. The students came in three (3) batches on three (3) different dates on 3, 4 and 10 April 2019 respectively.
2019 Penang Mobile Clinic by The Prostheses Foundation of H.R.H. The Princess Mother (12 to 18 May 2019)
LFL Prostheses Centre was invited by The Prostheses Foundation of H.R.H The Princess Mother from Chiang Mai, Thailand to participate and help out at their 2019 Penang Mobile Clinic which was held from 12 till 18 May 2019 at the Che Hoon Khor Moral Uplifting Society. During this mobile clinic, our technicians were able to learn new casting techniques and brush up their skills as well. One of our volunteer doctors, Dr. Nadia Mohd Mustafah from UiTM Hospital also attended the said mobile clinic session together with our technicians. We were also given 4 barrels of chemicals (50/50 solutions for prosthetic’s cosmesis use) by Assoc. Professor, Dr. Vajara Rujiwetpongstorn, the Secretary General of The Prostheses Foundation of H.R.H. The Princess Mother.
Caring Mom’s 2019 Mega Health Carnival (22 to 23 June 2019)
LFL Prostheses Centre was invited by CARING MOMS group once again to participate in their Mega Health Carnival which was held from 22 till 23 June 2019 at Sunway Nexis from 10:00a.m to 7:00p.m. We were given a free booth to promote and create awareness of our services to their members and the general public.
Focus Group Discussion by Aufa Intelligence Sdn Bhd on Research Support System to Caregiver of Disabled Persons (1 August 2019)
LFL Prostheses Centre was invited by Aufa Intelligence Sdn Bhd (a company appointed by Malaysia’s Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development) to participate in the discussions on Support System to Caregivers of Disabled Persons as they were doing a research on the subject matter. During the said event, we met a number of key personnel from Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat, SOCSO, various NGOs such as Down Syndrome and Autistic Society, Challenges Media etc. and were able to exchange our views on the matter.
B.Braun’s 2019 Charity Run Cheque Presentation Ceremony (6 September 2019)
LFL Prostheses Centre was invited to attend the above mentioned event by B.Braun to receive the donation from their 2nd Charity Run which was held from 15 till 19 July 2019 whereby their employees participated in the run. Held at their B.Braun’s Penang running track, teams consisting of 6 runners for each team, ran in relay for 3 hours over the 5-day event. The funds were raised through the collection of pledges based on the kilometers ran by each team. The individual teams searched for their own sponsors and their management matched the amount collected by each team. Total donations collected were distributed to three (3) recipients and LFL Prostheses Centre was one of their new recipients for 2019.
Total amount received by LFL Prostheses Centre was RM93,333. The cheque was presented by their Asia Pacific President, Mr. Lam Chee Hong at a special reception hosted by B.Braun at Askina Hyperbaric Healthcare Centre in Titiwangsa on 6 September 2019.
Tunku Abdul Rahman University College Student’s Visit (16 November 2019)
A student representative, Ms Lee Cha Wei from Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, requested for an interview with LFL Prostheses Centre for their course work purposes. Their assignment was to discuss social issues and the hope for the disabled community. Based on their research, they came to know about us and were impressed with the work done by LFL Prostheses Centre.
We invited them to visit our facilities on 16 November 2019 where we briefed them on our work. They had the opportunity to meet some of our patients and witnessed the clinic session in progress. They would try to promote LFL Prostheses Centre to their College to see if there are opportunities for future collaborations.
1st International Conference on Orthotics and Prosthetics 2019 (20 to 21 November 2019)
The 1st International Conference on Orthotics and Prosthetics 2019 (iCOP 2019) was held at UOW Malaysia KDU University College in Shah Alam on 20 and 21 November 2019. With the theme, "Empowering Disability through Technology", the Conference focused on new advancements in the field of limb prosthetics, robotics and related disciplines. The event was jointly organized by representatives from International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO), UOW Malaysia KDU University College, Universiti Putra Malaysia, University of Malaya, University Teknologi MARA and University of Bath, United Kingdom with main sponsorship from BioApps.
Our attendance of the said Conference had enabled us to, among other things, create awareness of and promote our products and services to the attendees; discuss with the key personnel of the relevant organizations and individuals such as ISPO Malaysia, SOCSO, Rehabilitation Department of Hospital Serdang on our products and services and circumstances under which they could refer amputees to us. In addition, we learned new prosthetics and orthotics technologies which are being successfully developed and widened our knowledge on products and services by other prosthetic vendors.
SUMMARY TO DATE (AS OF 31.12.2019)
Number of Applications received: 405
Number of Applicants rejected: 9
(financially over-qualified)
Number of Applicants dropped off/withdrawn/close file: 39
(no prostheses made)
Number of Applicants deferred: 89
(health conditions, weak stump etc.)
Number of Applicants scheduled for prostheses making: 7
Number of Applicants from Mobile Clinic: 4
(without prostheses from LFL Prostheses Centre yet)
Number of Applicants fitted with prostheses: 268
Number of Prostheses made: 305
(some with bi-prostheses), not including recasting of sockets
TYPE OF PROSTHESES
Below Knee (BK): 236
Above Knee (AK): 65
Through Knee (TK): 3
Syme Foot (SY): 1
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have contributed to the LFL Prostheses Centre since 2014. The monies gratefully received have been used to provide free limbs to the underprivileged amputees regardless of their race and religion.
2018
There were a few major events taken part by LFL Prostheses Centre in 2018:
24H Run from 10 to 11 February 2018
Sri Kuala Lumpur International School Charity Music Showcase 2018 on 4 August 2018
Diabetic Plantar Foot Ulcer Wound Off-Loading Insole Techniques on 26 November 2018 at Hospital Sungai Buloh
Community Service Initiative (CSI) Project by The Design School of Taylor's University – October till December 2018
The Centre is currently manned by an Administrator and two Technicians.
Current Members of the LFL Management Committee (LFLMC) for the 2018-2020 term are as follows:
Bro. Chiam Swee Ann, Chairman
Sis. Liew Meng Meng, Secretary
Bro. Lee Lean Hock, Treasurer
Bro. Teoh Tiang Kwang, Logistics & HR
Sis. Chern Meng Gaik, Marketing & Promotion
Bro. Ooi Peck Hwa (with effect from 13 January 2019)
Bro. Keu Tien Siong, Ex-Officio
Sis. Shirley Wong Nyet Ling provides legal support to LFLMC.
There were a few major events taken part by LFL Prostheses Centre in 2018:
24H Run from 10 to 11 February 2018
The above-mentioned event’s organizer, Gradise has graciously invited us again to join their annual event in which LFL Prostheses Centre was the sole beneficiary of all the funds collected during the said run. The Every KM Matters programme continued to support the LFL Prostheses Centre where RM 2.40 was raised for every KM achieved by the participants. The 2018 Run was the third consecutive year that 24H Run has contributed their donations to LFL Prostheses Centre. For 2018, the event was held at Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang. Based on the total mileage of 11,054.60 km covered by all the participants, the amount raised was RM 26,531.10. With the contribution of RM 1,000 by one of the participants’ daughter, the amount was increased to RM 27,531.10 but the final amount received by LFL Prostheses Centre was RM 30,024.95.
Sri Kuala Lumpur International School Charity Music Showcase 2018 on 4 August 2018
The above-mentioned event was organized by Sri Kuala Lumpur International School and led by Mdm. Anna Lee (Chairperson) and Mdm. S.K. Teoh (Stage Manager). LFL Prostheses Centre was invited to attend the event as the theme for the Charity Music Showcase 2018 was “Prosthetics”. The School decided to sponsor five patients from LFL Prostheses Centre with the proceeds from this showcase amounting to RM50,000.00. Two of LFL Prostheses Centre’s patients and recipients, namely Siti Hajjar Binti Muhammad from Kelantan and Mohamad Shazuan Aziq Bin Mustaffar from Kuantan, Pahang attended the event. The donation was presented by Sri Kuala Lumpur International School’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Hanif Merican and accepted by BUBS’s President, Bro. Keu Tien Siong, LFL Prostheses Centre’s Chairman, Bro. Chiam Swee Ann and BUBS’s Welfare Outreach EXCO, Bro. Lee Lean Hock.
Diabetic Plantar Foot Ulcer Wound Off-Loading Insole Techniques on 26 November 2018 at Hospital Sungai Buloh
LFL Prostheses Centre was invited by Dr. Akmal from Hospital Sungai Buloh again to observe the techniques and skills required for the provision of insoles (using a different method from the first training received in 2017) at the Hospital Sungai Buloh’s Rehabilitation Specialist Clinic on 26 November 2018. This is for the care of the sound limb; specifically provision of plantar wound off-loading insoles for the prevention and management of diabetic foot ulcer which are problems faced by most of our patients. The training was attended by our two technicians, Ew Chee Wat and Paramasivam Ramachindran. Our technicians have benefitted from this training and are now in the midst of making the insoles for one of our patients who is in need of the insoles due to problematic foot.
Community Service Initiative (CSI) Project by The Design School of Taylor's University – October till December 2018
The above-mentioned project was initiated by The Design School of Taylor’s University students consisting of Final Year seniors from Bachelor of Arts in Interactive Multimedia Design (IMD) and Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Communication Design (GCD), with a total of 23 students led by Ms. Erynn Tan Hui Lim. Together, they have helped LFL Prostheses Centre to design the following and also contributed RM2,300.00 for the project by printing the newly designed stationery, brochures, buntings and application forms:
Videos: Promotional/Introduction video, Socket Production Process video, Interview with Prostheses Recipients video, Interview with Volunteer Doctor
New Pamphlets/Catalogue design
New Bunting design
New Name card and New Appointment Card design
New LFL Prostheses Centre Application Form (incorporating 3 languages in one form)
New Letterhead, Time Slip Forms, Memo Forms and Certificate of Appreciation designs
New Website design
And finally, the total number of FREE prosthetic limbs given out by LFL Prostheses Centre from 2014 to 2018 are as follows:
Summary to date (as of 31.12.18)
Number of Applications received: 353
Number of Applicants rejected: 8
(financially over-qualified)
Number of Applicants dropped off/withdrawn/close file: 33
(no prostheses made)
Number of Applicants deferred: 64
(health conditions, weak stump etc.)
Number of Applicants scheduled for prostheses making: 9
Number of Applicants from Mobile Clinic: 3
(without prostheses from LFL Prostheses Centre yet)
Number of Applicants fitted with prostheses: 236
Number of Prostheses made: 265
(some with bi-prostheses), not including recasting of sockets
Type of Prostheses
Below Knee (BK): 212
Above Knee (AK): 49
Through Knee (TK): 3
Syme Foot (SY): 1
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have contributed to LFL Prostheses Centre since 2014. The monies received have been used to provide free limbs to the underprivileged amputees regardless of their race and religion.
