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Singapore's government expects to complete work on the wheelchairs by March 2017. With fewer than 1 nurse per 1,000 citizens, proper healthcare is difficult to access in many low-income countries. b“What if we could make the wheelchair move on [its] own?” asked Mark Lim, Singapore’s Director of Government Digital Services at Innovation Labs World. Lim’s team is exploring a partnership with healthcare agencies to create a self-driven wheelchair that could transport patients around hospitals without instruction. The research is brought on by the limited number of healthcare workers in Singapore. “Nurses are more precious in doing their work — in taking care of the patients — than pushing them around in the wheelchair,” Lim said. The project to create an autonomous wheelchair will combine computer vision, robotics, machine learning, and cloud computing technologies, and it is set to be completed in March 2017. Lim also announced that they are working on a “smart walking stick,” which he said will use GPS tracking technology to detect falls and trigger alerts when necessary.
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It makes for a thrilling spectacle and the adrenaline rush keeps the Singapore wheelchair rugby team coming back for more.
egg hanging chair ebay “It is very exciting, quite similar to (riding) bumper cars,” player Terence Chua told TODAY during a recent training session.
cheap garden bistro chairsThe 43-year-old, who has spina bifida, added: “Being wheelchair-bound, there are not many sports I can play, so wheelchair rugby is one where I can get myself moving and it is rather fun.”
wedding chair rentals miami fl The team was set up in collaboration with Raja Singh, the vice-president of the Singapore Disability Sports Council (SDSC), and ActiveSG last August.
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They train every Friday evening at Toa Payoh Sports Hall, with five to six volunteers helping out. The sport was started in 1977 in Canada by quadriplegic athletes seeking an alternative to wheelchair basketball, catering to those who do not possess enough strength or mobility to shoot a basketball. Athletes must have some loss of function in both upper and lower limbs. Teams can be mixed-gender. It is played by over 40 countries worldwide; Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore are the only South-east Asian nations with teams. The 12-strong Singapore team is led by captain Richard Kuppusamy. A coach from Malaysia helped to guide the team in its early months, but has since left. Kuppusamy, 40, doubles up as coach and the members study YouTube videos and other material online to enhance their knowledge. “Wheelchair rugby smashes stereotypes of disabled people in wheelchairs being frail and weak,” said Kuppusamy, who has spina bifida. “In fact, the sport empowers disabled people to become active and do things they might not imagine they could do.”
The wheelchairs are specially designed for extra strength, speed, stability and safety. Defensive chairs feature a “picker” to snag opponents, while offensive chairs have armoured wings to deflect hits. Passing is permitted and a try is only valid when a player crosses the opponents’ try line with the ball in possession. Physical contact between players is forbidden, as is striking another wheelchair from behind because of the danger of toppling the opponent over. Sheikh Mohd Danial Bawthan, who joined last September, acknowledged the “rough” nature of the sport but noted players usually abide by rules. “Usually, there aren’t any serious injuries, though we do end up with abrasions,” said the 23-year-old who has muscular dystrophy. “I get sore muscles, especially my back and triceps, because we do a lot of pushing and turning.” The wheelchairs take plenty of damage though, with three to four inner tubes punctured per session; occasionally, axles get bent too.
They cost about S$50 and S$200 respectively to repair. “The maintenance is around S$300 per month,” Kuppusamy said. “At present, the cost of repairs is borne by ActiveSG, with assistance provided by DNR Wheels Pte Ltd.” The current batch of nine wheelchairs are on loan from the non-profit Bali Sports Foundation, but the players have plans to purchase their own chairs by the end of the year. Each wheelchair costs around S$2,000. The team has no sponsors currently, but is “open to developing relationships with corporate partners”. The team is not focused on being competitive right now, although they have been to a few tournaments, such as The Association For International Sport For All (TAFISA) World Sport for All Games last October. They are planning to play some regional tournaments this year and aim to field a team at the 2018 Asian Para Games. The sport is not included in this year’s Asean Para Games. “Para-sports need not just be for the goal of playing in international tournaments,” Kuppusamy explained.
“The two goals of building an open team and training for the Para Games work in synergy with each other. “We are taking it slow and steady to build the team up as we don’t have the resources in the current programme to sustain a much larger team. “We have to establish ourselves as a credible group of players before we can identify who is willing and able to represent Singapore in an international para games.” Danial added: “The whole team is working very hard to gather knowledge and experience. Definitely, we hope to represent Singapore (in future).” Official tournaments require players to be classified according to level of disability while non-classified players, including able-bodied players, can take part in open-class tournaments. There are eight classified Singaporean players currently; the rest act as sparring partners for the team. “As the open-class players are going to be more physically capable, they will also be harder to beat in a match, therefore improving the skills and tactics that the classified team will need to employ to win,” Kuppusamy, who is non-classified, explained.