ONE of Scotland’s many unsung medical heroes is Dr Isabel Kerr, whose pioneering work in the treatment of leprosy is often forgotten in her native land but not in India where her memory is revered. It was in this week of 1932 that Dr Kerr died at the age of 57. She had devoted the last 25 years of her life to nursing sick people in India, particularly those afflicted with leprosy, and is reckoned to have saved hundreds, if not thousands, of lives. Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s Disease, has been a curse on the human species for thousands of years. The name comes from two Greek words that together mean scaly-skinned man – serious skin lesions are a common symptom of leprosy.
Saima Wazed brings disabled people from darkness to light: Hasan
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today said different programmes has been taken for the persons with
disabilities in the country by the prime minister’s worthwhile
daughter Saima Wazed.
are thinking of educating about their disabled children to make them
self-reliant. Now, they (disabled people) are getting allowances in
different sectors, getting rewards and they are coming from darkness
to light,” he said.
with Disability in Agriculture, Research Finding Dissemination and
Journalist Award’ at the auditorium of Krishibid Institution
Bangladesh (KIB) in the capital.
The Leprosy Mission, ICCO Cooperation, NORC and Bangladesh Krishak
League jointly organized the function.
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People living with leprosy have called on Kogi State government to appoint or employ some of them into the system.
The Kogi State Chairman, Association of Persons Living with Leprosy, Alhaji Bello Baba Jibrin, made the call at a one-day Media dialogue and lamented the stigmatization and discrimination against persons living with Leprosy in the state.
Alhaji Bello disclosed that leprosy is not a communicable disease, lamenting the ignorance that his members are being discriminated against.
He called on the government to assist members affected with employment and appointment, called on people to stop the stigmatization against persons living with leprosy.