Month: January 2018

Tamil Nadu government had established ‘State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd’ (SIPCOT) way back in 1971 to promote industrial growth in the state. SIPCOT has so far developed industrial complexes in 12 districts, Cuddalore being one among them.

Twenty-year-old Ramawati’s father Jiyutlal is a person affected by leprosy. They lived in Rampur village in Khushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh. They could hardly eat one meal a day from the money her father got working as a farm labourer.

On August 20, Mr Jagat Prakash Nadda, Hon’ble Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, announced at a function in Chennai that the government has decided to launch Mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP), an exclusive vaccine for leprosy, developed in India, on a pilot basis in five districts of Bihar and Gujarat within a few weeks. Dr Soumya Swaminathan, director general of Indian Council of Medical Research, said MIP has the potential to bring down new cases of leprosy by 60% in three years.

I reached my desk after the morning devotion at the hospital chapel on that sunny June morning. I felt energised. As a patient counsellor at TLM

Hospital, Barabanki, I expected a lot of patients that day. Suddenly, eighteen-year-old Sarvesh appeared in front of me.

Dipnarayan has achieved financial security withTLMTI’s Community Based Rehabilitation Project. Working as a labourer for the Food Corporation of India in Assam, Dipnarayan had started to notice the tell-tale signs of Leprosy on his foot. He became weak, lost sensation in his foot and began dragging it along the ground.