India s Leprosy Sufferers (1999)

Leper Outcasts (1999) - On the streets of India, the outstretched begging hands of those crippled by leprosy is still a common site. Subscribe to Journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures While globally medicine has had a major impact in preventing leprosy, it s still proving difficult to eradicate. In a culture that widely considers leprosy as divine intervention, the atonement for past sins, carriers are reluctant to seek treatment until it s too late. And so the government has mobilised an operation to seek out the infected while it s still early enough to prescribe effective treatment. "Looking for cases in the villages is like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack," despairs a doctor, but after screening a phenomenal 200,000 people they have successfully treated 45 new cases of leprosy. Equipped with casebooks cataloguing horrific photos of leper s lesions and withered limbs, the doctors shock villagers into succumbing to the tests, despite the possible humiliation. For more information, visit https://www.journeyman.tv/film/613 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures Marion Mayer Hohdahl - Ref. 0613