{"id":49,"date":"2018-01-06T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T14:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maitri-bodhgaya.org\/home\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2021-05-15T02:37:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T02:37:50","slug":"leprosy-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maitri-bodhgaya.org\/home\/leprosy-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Leprosy Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAITRI&#8217;s <strong>Leprosy Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre<\/strong> is the only organization authorized by the government of Bihar to run the National Leprosy Eradication Program in 3 provinces of Gaya District.<\/p>\n<p>Our collaboration with the <strong><em>State Health Services<\/em><\/strong> has been ongoing since 1989. Besides formally serving as advisors\/supervisors to the Government Health Services in the <em>Leprosy Integration Program<\/em> in Gaya since 2002, MAITRI has also extended all activities related to the prevention of deformities and to awareness campaigns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"parallax-one-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UFe1FQQ71CA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Opened in 1999, MAITRI&#8217;s hospital is a referral leprosy hospital for South Bihar. Over 1,400 patients have been successfully treated for ulcers and severe reactions and around 100 have been rehabilitated thanks to reconstructive surgery.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2002 a shelter was opened providing respite care for destitute and disabled patients.<\/p>\n<p>MAITRI field workers also implement other health and development programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAITRI&#8217;s Leprosy Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre is the only organization authorized by the government of Bihar to run the National Leprosy Eradication Program in 3 provinces of Gaya District. Our collaboration with the State Health Services has been ongoing since 1989. Besides formally serving as advisors\/supervisors to the Government Health Services in the Leprosy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maitri-bodhgaya.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maitri-bodhgaya.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maitri-bodhgaya.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maitri-bodhgaya.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maitri-bodhgaya.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.maitri-bodhgaya.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/www.maitri-bodhgaya.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maitri-bodhgaya.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}