INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Peshawar-Kai, a Japanese aid organization, has announced that it will resume leprosy treatment in Afghanistan after around 15 years.
The
charity will treat leprosy patients in memory of its former head Tetsu Nakamura, Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported.
The NGO will
begin its leprosy treatment program in Afghanistan this year.
It will treat patients in areas such as Nangarhar province by providing
medicines, training staff and sending mobile treatment teams.
Leprosy, also known as Hansen disease, is a chronic infectious disease caused
mainly by a type of bacteria called Mycobacterium leprae
The disease affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, the mucosa of the upper respiratory tract and the eyes.
Nakamura started treated
leprosy patients in Pakistan in the 1980s and then began extensive activities, including the construction of water supply canals in
Afghanistan.
The Japanese aid worker was killed in an armed attack in Jalalabad in December 2019.
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