National Rehabilitation Center in Pusan, 1959
STRENGTHENING WEAKENED LEG muscles by kicking a medicine ball the length of a walking rack is a youthful polio victim under treatment at Pusan's National Rehabilitation Center. Looking on is an even younger patient at the hospital with an arm injury. Mirror in the background allows the polio sufferers to observe their own progress. The National Rehabilitation Center in Pusan [Busan]- built in 1953UNKRA and American-Korean Foundation funds - is the only institution of its kind on the peninsula dedicated to the goal of helping disabled Korean veterans to help themselves. In the five years the Center has been at work, more than 24,000 disabled Koreans have passed through its doors. Eighty percent of these have been veterans of Korean fighting. Others are Korean civilians - mostly children - suffering from the crippling effects of polio.
