The Kindwitwi Leprosy Patients Ward was founded when father Robin Lamburn, the Anglican Church Missionary from England came to Kindwitwi in 1963. During this time of 1960s and 1970s there were no proper drugs to cure leprosy, instead they used drug called ‘Dap Son’ just to calm down the situation […]
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Leprosy has been feared and misunderstood for millennia. Some of the earliest records about the disease appear on an Egyptian papyrus document around 1550 BC although the bacteria M.leprae is thought to have been around for much longer; in 2009, a 4000-year-old human skeleton was discovered in India with erosion […]