Involvement of non-allopathy medical colleges in case detection

摘要

A questionnaire analysis of medical competitive examination held by us in allopathy and non-allopathy medical colleges in Mumbai indicates that teaching of leprosy is grossly inadequate in all colleges, reference books on leprosy are not available in college libraries and proper information about national leprosy programme explaining the existing leprosy status in the country is not available to the students. Though improvement in the standard of teaching of leprosy in medical colleges is a high priority in India Against the background of the WHO target of leprosy elimination in 2000 AD, non systematic efforts are Being made in this direction at the national level. A few sporadic effort in this context have been Documented by some voluntary organizations.