Wings for Life

The weather forecast wasn’t great for Sunday: snow and rain – in May! But Norbert Strittmatter didn’t mind. He was looking forward to the charity run in Zug. For a long time he didn’t know whether he would ever be able to run again. He lost the lower half of his left leg in a serious motorbike accident. He spent many days in hospital, followed by rehabilitation. “Three things happened that could have killed me. So, there was a stroke of luck to my misfortune,” he says.

Norbert Strittmatter is a fighter, and he learned to walk with a prosthesis. And thanks to the sports prosthesis, he’s even able to run again. He trains regularly in a group of people with restricted mobility. Thanks partly to donations from Sanitas Active app users ((Link Sanitas Active App)), he has now finally been able to afford a new sports prosthesis.

This is possible thanks in part to donations from users of the Active function in the Sanitas Portal. // This is possible thanks in part to donations from Active users  in the Sanitas Portal. Active app users receive virtual coins for the steps they do, and can redeem them for vouchers or donate them to PluSport ((Link plusport.ch)). “It’s great that I can exercise while also supporting people with restricted mobility who want to do sport,” says Sanitas customer and running coaching participant Nicole Abgottspon.

Norbert Strittmatter is grateful for the donations. “I’d like to thank anyone who made a donation. Without their support I would never have been able to afford this new prosthesis.”