Use of Audio-Visual aids in teaching post operative exercises to person affected by Leprosy.

With wider use of multi drug therapy the milestone of leprosy elimination in India was achieved in December 2005. But as per statistics, around one million leprosy-affected patients with disability are living in India. The national leprosy elimination programme was started in 1983 and leprosy services were integrated into the general health services in 2004, with the aim that leprosy patients would avail the services at their nearest community health centre. The national leprosy eradication programme is implemented in all districts throughout India, but still a lot of patients migrate to metropolitan cities and higher centres in search of better treatment and management of leprosy and related complications. Delhi, being the capital of India, attracts a large number of leprosy patients for treatment, diagnosis and leprosy-related complications from various states of India and from neighbouring countries as well. Some of the patients who come to Delhi are from the states, where their first language is not Hindi. Because of this migratory population, language plays a role in availing treatment and management. As the TLM Community Hospital is one of the referral centres for reconstructive surgery in leprosy, so other hospitals also receive patients for the management of various leprosy-related complications across India.