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BMC Hospital Starts Specialised Leprosy Services

Bombay Leprosy Project (BLP) made a breakthrough in integrating its specialised services into the municipal health delivery system. On 11th August,2009, yet another 'Extension Centre' of BLP was started at the Shatabdi Hospital, Borivali to cater to the large number of patients from Northern suburbs seeking expertise of staff with vast experience in leprosy.

Dr Sudhir Vyas, Chief Medical Officer of the hospital, while inaugurating the center welcomed the partnership of BMC with NGOs like BLP and said that it will strengthen the integrated approach for health delivery which is the current policy of BMC.

Veteran leprologist and Director Emeritus of BLP, Dr R Ganapati, said that with the unmanageable number of patients thronging BLP's main referral center in Chunabhatti, the Borivili clinic will provide the much needed relief. According to him, there is a dire need for such services to cater to the population in north Mumbai. Dr VV Pai, Director, BLP and his dedicated colleagues who laboured for long to establish this center thanked Dr Vyas for his progressive ideas in offering specialised services to the leprosy sufferers in the general OPD of his hospital.

EH News Bureau