Humanitarian cop in Khammam’s Wyra gives physically challenged a helping hand

Sub-Inspector Pushpala Rama Rao of Wyra police station has helped more than twenty people in the erstwhile Khammam district by providing artificial limbs and wheelchairs with support from NGOs and Rotary Clubs. His efforts also enabled a young adivasi girl to walk again.

Khammam: He is a police official by profession and unlike many others, has a passion to care for the needy.

Meet Pushpala Rama Rao, the Sub-Inspector of Police at Wyra police station. Despite his busy schedule as a police officer, he takes time to help people who lost their limbs due to health conditions and accidents stand on their own by providing them with artificial limbs as well as wheelchairs.

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He takes the support of different NGOs and Rotary Club of Mangalagiri, Jubilee Hills and Khammam in getting high quality German prosthetics that are tailored to meet specific functional needs and challenges, helping individuals return to daily activities and work.

Rama Rao has so far provided artificial limbs to over twenty persons of different ages across the erstwhile Khammam district. Speaking to Telangana Today, the SI said that when he visits any village on duty or for any other purpose, he identifies the persons in need of support. Then he consults NGOs and Rotary Club functionaries to provide them with the artificial limbs they require. Sometimes NGOs as well as Rotary Club functionaries contact him as he has been doing this for over ten years. After gathering three or four people, the SI hires a car from his own pocket to send them to the camps to get free artificial limbs.

Sharing his experiences, Rama Rao said the happiest moment was helping a poor adivasi girl, Karam Manasa of remote Gundalapadu in Mulakalapalli mandal in Kothagudem, to walk on her own.

When she was in 8th grade, her leg became septic due to a disease and while studying intermediate, her leg was amputated in the year 2022. Despite securing an engineering seat, she gave up her studies and stayed at home due to her disability and financial difficulties.

Last year, when Rama Rao visited the village to distribute rugs to locals with the help of an NGO, he noticed the girl’s condition. Then he spoke to her parents and convinced them to let her study engineering.

Since she needed a prosthetic limb, which cost more than Rs 1 lakh, he contacted the NGOs he knew. With their help, a state-of-the-art prosthetic limb was fitted to her and she is now walking normally. “It gives me immense pleasure seeing people who were once disabled live normally,” Rama Rao added.