Sun Jifa lost both his hands when a homemade blast-fishing bomb exploded prematurely. Unable to afford the prosthetic limbs offered by a hospital, he created his own.
When Sun Jifa, 51, of Guanmashan, Jilin province, in northern China got in an accident he lost his hands. But unfortunately he didn’t have enough money to buy a false hand.
After spending 8 years handcrafting prototypes he finally created metal hands that can grip and hold out of series of wires and pulleys that are controlled by movements in his elbows.
Daily Mail reported his story; Jifa said:
“I couldn’t afford to buy the false hand the hospital wanted me to have, so I decided to make my own,” Jifa says. He spent eight years handcrafting prototypes before finally creating metal hands that could grip and hold.
The devices depend on a series of wires and pulleys inside, and are controlled by movements in his elbows, he said. “I made this from scrap metal for virtually nothing,” Jifa says.
“There is no need to pay hospitals a fortune.” He says he will further develop the design for other disabled people.
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