Scarred Statistics

It is a matter of great shame that India is still not a leprosy-free country, thanks to the statistical manipulation and dishonesty of the government, Central and State alike. One the one hand, mass awareness campaigns denouncing the stigma associated with leprosy patients are on air both in the radio and in the television, and on the other, false statistical representation of leprosy patients in the country are published. This can only add to the psychological scars of the leprosy patients. Eradicating leprosy from the country is no impossible task and the government should come out of the spell of the utopian statistics and seriously get down to the business of making leprosy a matter of history in the country.