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MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
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LEPROSY
Leprosy is a dangerous disease that causes deformation amongst
the persons affected. There are six survey, education and treatment units of leprosy, attached to six primary health centres alongwith one eradication unit with headquarters at Amravati serving 80 villages.
The Maharogi Sewa Mandal, Tapovan, Amravati, the Kothara Leprosy Home and Hospital, Kothara; the Krishi Sudhar Mandal, Kashikhed, and the Maharogi Niwaran Sewa Sanstha, Palas-mandal- are the four renowned voluntary philanthropic organisations which have established hospitals at Amravati, Kothara, Kashikhed and Palasmandal with sub-centres at Warud, Darya-pur, Morshi, Tiwsa, Anjangaon and Dharni. Nearly 15,000 indoor and outdoor patients are treated at these centres which
provide for isolation as well as the treatment under the occupational therapy.
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