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The Former President, R. Venkatraman, the president of Nippon Foundation Japan and WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Elimination of Leprosy, Yohei Sasakawa, and the chairman ILU, S.D. Gokhale, at the National Programme for Elimination of Leprosy at Gandhi Smriti, in New Delhi on Thursday. Photo: R.V. Moorthy
NEW DELHI, JAN. 27. The International Leprosy Union (ILU), Nippon Foundation, and World Health Organisation (WHO) in a joint programme held at Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti here today launched the `Last Mile' campaign to bring the prevalence of leprosy to less than one person among 10,000 in the next 12 months, which is currently around 2 per 10,000. As per WHO standards, less than one in 10,000 Indians will make India eliminate leprosy as a public health problem. At the programme here today, 36 treated and rehabilitated leprosy patients from more than nine States of India were felicitated. Also P.K. Gopal and Bharat Kotharia, both associated with the field for several decades, were honored with the International Leprosy Union awards by the former President, R. Venkataraman, at the function today. Present here were Nippon Foundation president, Y. Sasakawa, the WHO India Head (Leprosy), S.J. Habayeb; and the ILU India chairman, S.D. Gokhale. The meeting also identified a large group of treated and rehabilitated former leprosy patients, and renamed them as `Lokdoots' to act as the messengers for spreading care, cure and concern for the leprosy patients. The most affected States still have been identified to be Bihar, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Orissa, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The prevalence rate in these States range from 3 in 10,000 in West Bengal to as high as 4 and 5.5 in 10,000 in Delhi and Bihar. The meet also identified an `Action Plan' for the year 2005 for rehabilitating the cured patients and for organising workshops for doctors, social workers, and media-men in different parts of India, and for combating the social stigma around even the treated patients.
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