LEPERS IN VIETNAM
Rehabilitation By Mission Another 50 leprosy patients had been declared cured at a world-wide Evangelisation Crusade leprosarium' which the New Zealand Mission to Lepers had helped to build near Da Nang in South Vietnam, the secretary for the mission in New Zealand (the Rev. M. Feist) said in Auckland recently.
A training village to rehabilitate these patients was being built between Da Nang and the Happy Haven Leprosarium, only a few miles from Viet Cong positions, he said. This village would be part of a larger scheme which would provide a maternity block and a medical training centre for Vietnamese maternity and leprosy workers. Mr Feist said that the project had been accepted as a civic aid programme by United States Marines camped nearby. They would find most of the materials and some labour. Several cured patients who were living in a large marquee on the site were helping with work on the buildings. Viet Cong activity made it impossible for missionaries to visit the leprosarium except when they were taken by a military helicopter, said Mr Feist. Patients needing special treatment were taken through the Viet Cong area to the mission’s medical centre.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31542, 2 December 1967, Page 12
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