More work in leprosy
The opportunities and problems facing the Leprosy Mission in New Zealand are greater than ever before, according to the secretary of the mission (the Rev. R. A. Alcorn). Mr Alcorn said in Auckland recently that each year the cost of maintaining present work and expanding it where needed increased considerably every year. He said that the mission also received an increasing number of invitations to commence work in new areas each year.
“Many leprosy control programmes have not been run efficiently with the result that many patients have taken irregular and inadequate doses of the antileprosy sulphone drugs. “As a result sulphone resistant bacilli are appearing with disturbing frequency in many countries.”
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Press, 16 August 1976, Page 4
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