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Spreading disease awareness among children urged
Health representatives have urged on awareness programmes on leprosy, especially for children. About 600 schoolchildren, teachers, nursing students and others participated in the rally organised as part of the Leprosy Eradication Day at Gunbazaar Function Hall on Saturday.
Health representatives have urged on awareness programmes on leprosy, especially for children. About 600 schoolchildren, teachers, nursing students and others participated in the rally organised as part of the Leprosy Eradication Day at Gunbazaar Function Hall on Saturday.
P Satyanarana, Health Officer from Leprosy and HIV /AIDS Department said, “Leprosy currently affects approximately a quarter of a million people throughout the world, with majority of these cases being reported from India.
The country is currently running one of the largest leprosy eradication programmes in the world, the National Leprosy Eradication Program (NLEP). Still, 1.2 to 1.3 hundred thousand new cases of leprosy are reported every year.
Since children are most susceptible to leprosy, they face worse discrimination and ostracisation from childhood, including the denial of basic rights and medical care.” Shaik Nayeem, Kriya Sangh Society general secretary said, “Children awareness is compulsory, which can reduce the level leprosy by taking various precautionary measures.”
The event was organised by Kriya Sangh Society in coordination with AD, DMHO and the Leprosy and HIV/AIDS Department. Ganagadhar Tillak Founder Sharmadaan an NGO,highlighted dreaded disease ill effects and advised the care to be taken to prevent the attack and work for total eradication in the city,state and across the world.
“The National Leprosy Control Programme was launched by the Government of India in 1955 based on Depsone Monotherapy. Multi Drug Therapy (MDT) came into wide use from 1982 after which the programme was re-named as the National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP) in 1983.
The Programme was expanded with World Bank assistance from 1993-94 to 2003-04 with the objective to achieve elimination of leprosy as a public health problem by 2005, thereby reducing the case load to less than 1,10,000 population in he country.S till many cases are missing due to non reporting from villages and other parts of the cities.
