Industrial Association "Ukrprotez" plays the leading role in the manufacture of orthopaedic and prosthetic devices as well as rehabilitation aids.
It incorporates the following enterprises:
- 11 municipal experimental prosthetic-orthopaedic enterprises;
- 3 state-owned experimental prosthetic-orthopaedic enterprises;
- Kharkov State-Run experimental prosthetic production enterprises;
- "Kyiv Plant "Impulse" state-run enterprise;
- Scientific-Research Institute for Social Protection Issues;
- 4 non-governmental companies:
- Ortpomoshch, JSC;
- "Drukmash" Ltd, Kirovograd Subsidiary of "Works of Optional Equipment";
- "RobotMetalurgInvest", Research and Production Application Firm;
- Center for Social Rehabilitation of the Union of Afghanistan Veterans.
Ukrprotez’s products range of orthopaedic goods:
- artificial upper and lower limbs;
- apparatus;
- tutors of upper and lower limbs;
- corsets;
- all sorts of bandages;
- orthopaedic footwear;
- excrement receivers;
- footwear for prosthetic devices;
- various rehabilitation aids:
- crutches;
- walking sticks;
- walkers;
- wheelchairs;
- facilities of small-scale mechanization