VOLUNTARY AGENCIES AND LEPROSY CONTROL INDIA

Dermatologists and leprosy in India.

Leprosy has been treated by dermatologists for over half a century. Teachers in dermatology in all medical schools and colleges were MBBS with three months’ training in leprosy in the School of Tropical Medicine. Advanced leprosy cases with deformity were treated mostly at leprosaria but also in medical colleges. In the control programme in India, which was in operation from 1954, under SET cen...

Leprosy Relief in India

The 1921 census gives 102,513 as the number of lepers in India, but mentions that this is short of the real number, as only conspicuous sufferers from this disease were likely to be enumerated by the untrained people who gathered the statistics. Recently, an estimate was made by the sanitation staff of a certain town in India that there were only six lepers in a certain ward of the town. Immedi...

Leprosy control activities in India: integration into general health system.

Integration of leprosy control into the general health system is an essential element of a leprosy elimination strategy. In India, the process has been undertaken with the assistance of World Bank in a phased manner. In the first phase (2001-2002), 24 low/moderately endemic provinces for leprosy were targeted. Operational research was undertaken in these low/moderate endemic provinces to assess...

Leprosy Institutions in India

Histoid leprosy in North India.

Histoid lepro sy, originally described by Wade in 1960 (1 2) is generally regarded as a distinct clinico-pathological entity. It presents as cutaneous or subcutaneous nodular and / or plaque-like lesions arising from apparently normal skin. The lesions are characterized, histologically , by tumorous collections. of spindle-shaped cells arranged in a crisscross fashion giving them a resemblance ...