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LINK MEDICINE - LEPROSY
The Church in front line to fight leprosy

With reference to figures in the Church’s Book of Statistics on the situation in 2002, still to be verified, here is a table on Church run leprosy centres and the number of patients:

LEPROSARIES & PATIENTS
Region Patients New cases in 2002
Africa 270 143.806
América central, continental 10 1.227
América central, Antilles 5 2.522
South América 48 91.387
Asia 340 577.919
Europa 4 410
Oceanía 1 50
TOTAL 678 817.321

 
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