Silchar: To eradicate leprosy from the district, a comprehensive 6 months long programme has been taken up by the Cachar administration in association with District Health Department. The programme aims to identify all individuals affected with leprosy in Cachar including children. Along with the identification of patients, medicines will be provided to the patients and will ensure the completion of doses to the leprosy patients.
Under the leadership of Cachar DC Keerthi Jalli and under the guidance of Deputy Director, AIFO and NLEP (National Leprosy Eradication Programme) Consultant, Dr N.Manimozhi, this project will be organised by the Joint Director of Health, Dr Ashutosh Barman.
While sharing her reaction, Cachar DC, Keerthi Jalli said, "Leprosy is one disease which can be diagnosed by health worker and if early diagnosis is done, it can be cured fully but due to late diagnosis of leprosy the patient get deformity of organ. Many times people have a stigma about leprosy and they tend to hide the disease, but if they hide it will spread to other people. Patients hide because people keep them isolated. Even after the diagnosis and medicines starts, the patient stops taking medicines due to many causes, and the patients becomes resistant to the medicine."
" Nowadays identification of leprosy patients has gone down due to poor diagnosis at early stage," added DC Jalli. DC Jalli also sought cooperation and participation from all health care providers to make the programme a success for making Cachar Leprosy-free.
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