Over 1 billion people suffer from Neglected Tropical Diseases: NCPEDP
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) – WHO data shows that 58% of the newly diagnosed leprosy cases in the world in 2018 were in India.
List of Leprosy
Jaipurfoot – BMVSS Chennai
BMVSS, being a social organization engaged in humanitarian work, provides all the artificial limbs, calipers, crutches, ambulatory aids like wheelchairs, hand paddled tricycles and other aids and appliances totally free of charge to the physically challenged.
Citizen Development Centre
Welfare and development for the Leprosy persons, Handicapped, poor destitute women and downtrodden people. The secular, non partisan, Non profitable, Non religious, Non political society of CITIZEN DEVELOPMENT CENTRE has been given birth and registered on 10-01-1997 under T.N. Society Regd. Act 27 of 1975 Regd. No. 9/1997. CDC is also committed to complete elimination of poverty in its service area.
Tamil Nadu Government Rehabilitation Homes
Government Rehabilitation Home for Leprosy Beggars
Issue disability certificate to differently abled at the State Resource cum Training Centre
The government has announced changes in the issuance of disability certificates. An official release said for hearing and visually impaired persons it would be issued on Mondays; for those Locomotor handicapped/cerebral palsy/leprosy cured it would be on Tuesdays and for mental retardation, multiple disability, autism and mentally ill persons it would be on Friday.
Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training
Patients with locomotor / orthopaedic disabilities due to various ailments like poliomyelitis, Cerebral Palsy, Congenital Deformities, Leprosy, Burn contracture, Paraplegia, Hemiplegia etc.