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Help Overturn the Stigma of Leprosy
Reverend Martin Adhikary
31st January, 2021 10:40:59
Today, the last Sunday of this January, organisations all over the world working with and for leprosy affected people observe as the World Leprosy Day. The idea behind this is to raise awareness among people about the age-old stigmatising health hazard known as Leprosy. Leprosy is also known as ‘Hansen’s disease’ after the name of Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen, a Norwegian scientist, who first identified the causative agent of the disease in the year 1973. This is the bacteria named ‘Mycobacterium leprae’ causes this disease.
Leprosy is a progressively infectious disease. Although it is a mildly infectious disease the gestation period can take many years it harms people in multiple ways: physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. In days gone by it was considered a curse, even a divine curse of God. Unless right and timely treatment is received by the affected people leprosy ca
Leprosy still infects 4000 people every year in Bangladesh
UNB
31st January, 2021 08:14:04
About 4,000 fresh leprosy cases are being detected every year in Bangladesh and almost eight percent of the patients suffer from leprosy-related disability, according to a document from Leprosy & TB Coordinating Committee (LTCC) on ‘World Leprosy Day-2021’.
With a slogan ‘#Beat Leprosy’, the National Leprosy Programme (NLP) and LTCC member organisations jointly celebrated the World Leprosy Day-2021 in Bangladesh as elsewhere on Sunday.
The country observed the day with a Bengali slogan ‘Sommilito Prochestay, Kushtoke Kori Joy’ which means it is possible to defeat leprosy through concerted efforts.
Addressing the National Conference 2019 on Zero Leprosy Initiative by 2030 in Dhaka in 2019, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed everyone to avoid negative attitudes and stop discriminating leprosy patients and instead take initiative for their proper treatment, said a media releas