LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Deoghar, Sept 14: The Deoghar district has recorded a sharp rise in the number of leprosy cases recently. According to government data, 250 new patients have been identified between April and August this year.
Four blocks of the district have more patients. Among these blocks, Mohanpur block has the highest number of patients (50), Jasidih has 34, Sarwan has 33 and Madhupur block has 29 patients.
Devipur and Sarath both have 26 patients whereas Palojori has 20 and Kauron has the least number of patients (15).
All these patients are classified into two categories based on the number of patches on their bodies. Patients with fewer patches are kept under the Paucibacillary (PB) category and those who have more patches are classified as Multibacillary (MB). The number of PB patient are 145 whereas MB patients are 105.
Notably, a national programme for the identification of leprosy patients is going on in the district. Talking to Lagatar24.com, the head of the leprosy eradication department Dr Vidhu Bhushan said that the field staff were doing hard work to find out the affected patients. He claimed that new cases of leprosy could only be identified due to their honest job.
