A closer look at leprosy
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The Impact of Covid on Leprosy Patients
There are a lot of leprosy mission hospitals across India the hospitals that exclusively treat leprosy patients. They manufacture this rubber footwear, specialized footwear for leProsy patients because they get a lot of sores on their skin and on their legs especially. So this kind of footwear really helps them stay mobile. And as you say it is now treatable and so that does mean there have been huge strides made around the world in the last 40 years haven't there. It's amazing as soon as multi drug therapy was introduced especially in developing countries around the 1980s I think we've taken huge strides in treating the disease.
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