Recent directions by Supreme Court to Centre and states:
- Conduct Periodic National Surveys to determine the prevalence rate.
- Formulate a comprehensive community-based rehabilitation scheme which shall cater to all basic needs of the leprosy-afflicted persons and their families.
- Integrate treatment of leprosy into general health care, which will usher in a no-isolation method in general wards and OPD services.
- Give wide publicity to the activities of the National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP).
- Discontinue using “frightening images” of people afflicted with leprosy in the awareness programmes and instead use “positive images of cured persons sharing their experiences of being cured of leprosy”.
- Ensure that drugs for management of leprosy and its complications are available free of cost and that they do not go out of stock in Primary Health Centres (PHCs).
