The Leprosy Rehabilitation
Program was established by the Ramakrishna Math in 1989, and is running
successfully ever since.
The program not only offers
medical care to its patients, but also addresses their emotional concerns and
helps bring out talents and abilities hidden within them. Overall, the program
helps them reintegrate fully into society.
The program also offers patients
and their families’ vocational training in cottage industry crafts, and helps
them find a way for economic self-sustenance.
Every Sunday, for two hours
between 3 PM and 5PM, service personnel visit the center to offer psychological
counseling to the patients.
In order to save the families of
leprosy patients from neglect, children of patients are given educational aid.
Regular eye care and necessary eye surgery is arranged for some patients at the
Sankar Nethralaya Eye Hospital in Chennai.
Patients who have lost limbs get
help in receiving pension benefits.
IN 2006, 12 leprosy patients were
assisted with housing under the Tamilnadu Housing Scheme. The program regularly
organizes exhibitions of handicrafts, greeting cards and paintings made by
Leprosy patients.
The program also works with the
Chennai Sanatorium and organizes recreational events to regale the patients
living there.
Providing all-round physical,
emotional and spiritual care for patients afflicted by a highly stigmatized
disease, The Leprosy Rehabilitation Program run by Mr. Shiva is offering extraordinary
service to patients in the state.
Contact:
Vishwanathan,
28/22, Tamilan street,
Choolaimedu,
Chennai – 600094
Ph: 044-23613790
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