Leprosy Mailing List – December 8th, 2010
Ref.: Priorities for future of leprosy control
From: Gajete F, Manila, The Philippines
Dear Dr Salvatore,
I perfectly agree with Dr Vijay Pannikar (LML Dec. 5th, 2010). As the National Programme Manager for Leprosy in the
I have been working in leprosy since
We need to put up a Training Institute in the country. One such institution capable of providing training is The Leonard Wood Memorial Research for Leprosy with its Staff whom we consider as experts, however, they just could not cope with the demand, human and facility resource-wise. Although, American Leprosy Mission is funding its operations, I believe they need more outside assistance.
Another option is the programme conducted before wherein for every country there were four sent for training, these are representatives from the Province/City/Sanitarium to either Karigiri (South India),
I hope ILEP could look into this so that our goal for the next 5 years that is empowering our primary stakeholders can be attained. We can develop the professionals/skilled ones into trainers/health educators in leprosy to conduct basic orientation and self care patterned after Vietnam/Cambodia/Indonesia and
I am really grateful that Dr Vijay Pannikar opened the doors for discussing this great concern for the future of global leprosy control programme.
Sincerely,
Dr Francesca Gajete
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