Special Report: A Leper’s Tale
DESIGN: EXPRESS
Pakistan’s leprosy christ Dr Ruth Pfau, who served a amiability and a lepers, in particular, upheld divided in Aug this year. Today, many continue to humour and live in siege as a illness continues to haunt them. The Express Tribune has brought to we a special news to move to spotlight a patients’ condition and prominence their plight.
Hidden away: Isolation colours a lives of a lepers of Manghopir
Pale scarred faces, press noses and infinite stories of vital in unpleasant isolation; these are all residents of a leper’s colony, located on a hinterland of Karachi. The cluster consists of singular level houses; tiny structures built hap-hazardly with concrete blocks, within a fuzzy and troublesome premises of a Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Leprosy Hospital.
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A impulse that altered history
Dr Ruth Pfau, a soft-spoken German Christian missionary, assured a judges, a lawyers and her critics, to set adult a diagnosis centre for ‘untouchable’ leprosy patients in Saddar, by holding blood from a leprosy patients and injecting into her possess body.
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Meet Noorul Islam; who refuses to be overtaken by his leprosy
Noorul Islam is one such patients who have refused to be overtaken by a disease, and has set adult a large hothouse in an open space during KMC Leprosy Hospital in Manghopir.
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Same story: KMC sanatorium on a downward spiral
Conditions and standards during a Leprosy Hospital in Manghopir have been deteriorating with each flitting day after the KMC took over a sole specialised diagnosis trickery for skin diseases. The trickery was glorious when it was looked after by Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre (MALC), underneath a organisation of Dr Ruth Pfau.
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The leprosy patients continue to live with their disease, some in wish and others in despair. One can usually wish that both a medical and tellurian diagnosis to a patients in a capital and a nation improves in a days to come.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1520707/special-report-lepers-tale/