Leprosy patients suffer months with no medical care
After nine months without medical care, the posting of a single doctor to a “leprosy village” in Yangon is only a small consolation for its nearly 200 residents.
For months, the villagers depended on donors to provide medicine and on health assistants or volunteers to administer multi-drug therapy (MDT), a combination of three antibiotics that cures leprosy. Patients living with severe permanent complications of leprosy live in a shelter. The shelter administrator can refer patients to the district hospital in Hlegu township, but can offer no further treatment as he has no medical training.
