Summary:
more-inIt is a general feeling of helplessness that hangs in the air at the Government Hospital for Dermatology (Government Leprosy Hospital earlier) in Kozhikode. The social stigma surrounding leprosy that prevents the cured patients from going home is just another ailment that needs to be cured. With the government including the hospital in the APL list, procuring foodgrain too has become difficult. Then there are around 120 patients who have been cured of their disease but continue to stay at the hospital because they have no place to go. Despite the presence of eight wells in the compound, the inmates get water only for two hours a day..