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Chile Becomes First In The Americas To Eliminate Leprosy, WHO Verifies
Chile has become the first country in the Americas to be officially verified by the World Health Organization for eliminating leprosy as a public health problem. The milestone follows more than 30 years without locally transmitted cases and sustained
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Leprosy-Free India Mission: Government To Ensure Free Screening And Treatment Nationwide
Free diagnosis and multi-drug treatment at public health hospitals is ensuring that India remains leprosy-free, said the government on Friday.
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This Crorepati Beggar In Indore Has 3 Homes, 3 Auto-Rickshaws, Dzire Car
When the rescue team picked up Mangilal late Saturday night, acting on information that he was a leprosy patient begging regularly in Sarafa, they expected another routine case. Instead, they stumbled upon a financial plot twist.
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Father Of Boy Killed In Dehradun School Had Been Searching For 17 Days
For 17 days, a leprosy patient from Uttar Pradesh's Meerut kept looking for answers for his missing 12-year-old son. His search ended on Thursday in horror when he found out that his son - a Class 7 student at a boarding school in Uttarakhand's Dehradun - had been beaten to death allegedly by seniors and the body was buried by the school within the...
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What Ailed The Mahatma? Gandhi's Health Records Revealed For The 1st Time
Called "a half-naked seditious fakir" by Winston Churchill, one of his bitterest critics, Mahatma Gandhi managed to change the world in more ways than one. But what constituted Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi? Was it just his grit and determination? Now, for the first time, the Mahatma's personal health records have been made public that reveal he was a...
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Top Court Directs Centre, States For Rehabilitation Of Leprosy Patients
The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to consider framing separate rules for granting disability certificates to leprosy patients for availing reservation and various welfare benefits.
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Shameful: 75-Year Old Leprosy Patient Isolated Even After Death
A 75-year old man was refused a proper cremation ceremony because he was suffering from leprosy before death.
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Doctors Turn Polling Personnel To Ensure Leprosy Patients Vote In Bengal
Voters of a leprosy colony in Bankura district of West Bengal today exercised their franchise freely as a polling booth was marked exclusively for them inside a hospital where doctors turned into polling personnel.
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Leprosy Patients Meet Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at 'Janta Darbar'
A group of leprosy patients today met Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his 'janta darbar' programme and urged him to accelerate welfare measures meant for them which they claimed have been withheld for more than 10 years.
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With No Staff at This Mumbai Hospital, Leprosy Patients Turn Doctors, Ward Boys
At a government care centre in Mumbai, leprosy patients are busy cleaning and dressing each other's wounds. Some of them are even mopping the hospital's floor to keep their surroundings clean.
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Chile Becomes First In The Americas To Eliminate Leprosy, WHO Verifies
Chile has become the first country in the Americas to be officially verified by the World Health Organization for eliminating leprosy as a public health problem. The milestone follows more than 30 years without locally transmitted cases and sustained
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Leprosy-Free India Mission: Government To Ensure Free Screening And Treatment Nationwide
Free diagnosis and multi-drug treatment at public health hospitals is ensuring that India remains leprosy-free, said the government on Friday.
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This Crorepati Beggar In Indore Has 3 Homes, 3 Auto-Rickshaws, Dzire Car
When the rescue team picked up Mangilal late Saturday night, acting on information that he was a leprosy patient begging regularly in Sarafa, they expected another routine case. Instead, they stumbled upon a financial plot twist.
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Father Of Boy Killed In Dehradun School Had Been Searching For 17 Days
For 17 days, a leprosy patient from Uttar Pradesh's Meerut kept looking for answers for his missing 12-year-old son. His search ended on Thursday in horror when he found out that his son - a Class 7 student at a boarding school in Uttarakhand's Dehradun - had been beaten to death allegedly by seniors and the body was buried by the school within the...
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What Ailed The Mahatma? Gandhi's Health Records Revealed For The 1st Time
Called "a half-naked seditious fakir" by Winston Churchill, one of his bitterest critics, Mahatma Gandhi managed to change the world in more ways than one. But what constituted Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi? Was it just his grit and determination? Now, for the first time, the Mahatma's personal health records have been made public that reveal he was a...
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Top Court Directs Centre, States For Rehabilitation Of Leprosy Patients
The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to consider framing separate rules for granting disability certificates to leprosy patients for availing reservation and various welfare benefits.
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Shameful: 75-Year Old Leprosy Patient Isolated Even After Death
A 75-year old man was refused a proper cremation ceremony because he was suffering from leprosy before death.
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Doctors Turn Polling Personnel To Ensure Leprosy Patients Vote In Bengal
Voters of a leprosy colony in Bankura district of West Bengal today exercised their franchise freely as a polling booth was marked exclusively for them inside a hospital where doctors turned into polling personnel.
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Leprosy Patients Meet Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at 'Janta Darbar'
A group of leprosy patients today met Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his 'janta darbar' programme and urged him to accelerate welfare measures meant for them which they claimed have been withheld for more than 10 years.
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With No Staff at This Mumbai Hospital, Leprosy Patients Turn Doctors, Ward Boys
At a government care centre in Mumbai, leprosy patients are busy cleaning and dressing each other's wounds. Some of them are even mopping the hospital's floor to keep their surroundings clean.
