Advocating for Spinal Injury Services remained the focal point of our work from 1985 to 2000.  This campaign was not restricted to Orissa. In 1985 we attended the beginning of the establishment of setting up the Indian Spinal Injury Centre in New Delhi. With Major Ahluwalia who set up the centre in Delhi, the Italian Government who was sponsoring the programme and especially Dr. Carlo Marino who coordinated it, the Ministry of Social Justice and Health became central to our campaign. Sri Shivraj Patil, Speaker Lok Sabha (Later Home Minister), Eduardo Faleiro the Minister of State for External Affairs, Mamata Bannerjee, Minister for WCD, I attended the IMSOP meeting in Rome so that I could campaign in Italy for setting up a centre in Bhubaneswar.

To prove that it could be done a unit was set up which included a State of the Art  Outdoor Physiotherapy Clinic assisted by British Aid and Aus Aid and small donors such as the Punjabi Biradri.  We were inundated with work but found that most patients who came were poor and from rural areas. At the same time at the national and international level we met people interested in the work.

The Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy and the Orthotic department of the center is well equipped to manage the physical rehabilitation of persons with Spinal Cord Injury. Its well-trained professional and auxiliary staff has a long experience and insight as the center pioneered and demonstrated the concept of comprehensive rehabilitation of spinal cord injured persons in a cost effective manner. The center takes pride in comprehensively rehabilitating over 400 persons with spinal cord injury to date. Peer counseling, Psychosocial and Vocational counseling backs up the physical rehabilitation followed by regular follow up visits to monitor progress and problems facing those discharged.

The Physiotherapy & Occupational therapy unit is also equipped to handle outpatients for pain relief, sports injuries, occupational disorders, pediatric conditions, fractures etc. The units are well equipped with the state of the art electrical, thermal and exercise equipments.