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Important Health Education Messages
- Leprosy is completely curable with Multidrug Therapy which also prevents disability and deformity.
- A Pale or Red Patch on skin may be Leprosy. Don’t fear leprosy…Treat it.
- Leprosy Free check- up and MDT available in all government and Mahanagarpalika Dispensary and Health Centres.
- Early diagnosis early treatment surely drives away leprosy.
- Early and regular treatment cuts down the transmission of leprosy.
- Multi Drug Therapy, a gift of modern medicine to leprosy patients.
- Rehabilitation of leprosy persons is everybody’s responsibility.
- Multi Drug Therapy shall wipe out leprosy from the globe.
- Let us join the hands to work towards A WORLD WITHOUT LEPROSY.
Leprosy Victim- Department of Social Justice: To co–ordinate all State Govt. departments in extending available benefits to leprosy afflicted persons in the state, to disburse available grants for various social welfare schemes.
- Department of Education: To incorporate lessons on leprosy in the curriculum of school children.
- Food and Civil Supplies: To provide benefits under schemes like Antyoday Anna Yojana to deserving leprosy patients.
- Department of Urban Development: To provide necessary facilities under schemes like Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana, Slum Improvement Act. Priority employments to leprosy affected persons and their dependants etc.
- State Transport Corporation: To co–ordinate efforts of health department in health education viz. allowing various advertisements on leprosy to be displayed in ST stands, Buses. Provide travel concessions to leprosy affected persons.
- Information and Publicity: To provide wide publicity to health educational programmes in leprosy.
- Prasar Bharati: To broadcast various programmes on health education in leprosy.
- Railways: To provide travel concessions to eligible leprosy affected persons. To help in generating awareness by assisting in various programmes of IEC.
- Significant decline in active cases, prevalence rate, deformity rate, increase in female case proportion and decrease in child proportion.
- Decline in the misconception and taboos in society due to effective health education.
- Declining need for separate “Kushthadham” for leprosy affected patients.
- Universal availability of MDT including AMDT.
- Increasing awareness about leprosy leading to increased voluntary reporting.
- Achievement of elimination i.e PR < 1/10,000 population by Sept. 2005.
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