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Covid-19 pandemic hits India's drive to tackle an ancient disease — Elephantiasis


updated: May 27 2021, 15:03 ist
Sunita Kashyap used to get free treatment in her local health centre for the swelling in her right leg that has left her in pain and unable to work - the incurable result of a parasitic disease endemic in her native India.
That was before the pandemic hit, overwhelming India s already fragile health system.
For the past year, the 36-year-old mother of three has received only basic painkillers for the debilitating swelling caused by her lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis for the distinctive lower limb swelling it causes.
We are poor people, she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from her village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, one of India s most deprived regions. ....

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Pandemic hits India's drive to tackle an ancient disease


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MUMBAI and LUCKNOW, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sunita Kashyap used to get free treatment in her local health centre for the swelling in her right leg that has left her in pain and unable to work - the incurable result of a parasitic disease endemic in her native India.
That was before the pandemic hit, overwhelming India’s already fragile health system.
For the past year, the 36-year-old mother of three has received only basic painkillers for the debilitating swelling caused by her lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis for the distinctive lower limb swelling it causes. ....

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