Leprosy Mailing List – April 16, 2020
Ref.: (LML) Père Damien
From: Joel Almeida, London and Mumbai
Dear Pieter,
Today, 15 April, is the death anniversary of Jozef Damien de Veuster, beloved by many for his example of showing respect to segregated people with HD and serving them in practical ways. He died in 1889. Nearly a century later, people inspired by him produced one of the biggest successes in rapid reduction of HD. This was in Uele, DR Congo (then called Zaire). Workers from Foundation Père Damien produced this success, a decline of over 17%/year in the incidence rate of MB HD.
May generations continue to be inspired by his example, especially gifted young people. Then the disease that shortened his life will itself have its life shortened.
Joel Almeida
LML - S Deepak, B Naafs, S Noto and P Schreuder
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Contact: Dr Pieter Schreuder << editorlml@gmail.com
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