Leprosy
mailing list, June 24th, 2005
To: all.
Ref.: Referral Centres
for Clinical Services
From: R Ganapati, V V Pai, S
Kingsley, Mumbai, India.
__________________________________________________________________________
Sub: Referral Centres for
Clinical Services
Dear Dr Noto,
We have attempted to
refresh the memory of your readers by collecting excerpts from LMLs
and other sources including the media, voicing the opinion of experts
on the above subject (given as an attachment in MS Word document).
For a long time there was no
convincing response from the WHO spelling out policy statements in the
background of current leprosy scenario that will assure clinical care
of the patients already under treatment or after “release from
treatment”. We learn that the recent WHO/ILEP document called “Global
Strategy for Further Reducing the Leprosy Burden and Sustaining
Leprosy Control Activities (Plan period: 2006 – 2010)”
prepared at a joint meeting held on 14-15 February, 2005 in London
emphasizes the need to “strengthen routine and referral
services” and “to develop tools … for the prevention of
disabilities/ impairments and for the provision of rehabilitation
services” etc.
As all lml readers may not be aware of the latest
global policies, we wonder whether it will be possible for you to circulate
this document and announce these through your valuable medium of LML.
Thanks,
Dr R Ganapati, Dr VV Pai and S
Kingsley
Bombay Leprosy Project
