"This year, we have allocated a budget of Rp 30 million, more than 2008 of Rp 20 million," said Chief of Cilacap District Health Office Sugeng Budi Susanto through the Deputy Supervisor Leprosy Health Jasmo Cilacap, Cilacap, on Friday.
However, Jasmo said, it expects the changes in budget allocations to the addition of which will be used for leprosy treatment training for health personnel in Cilacap.
According to him, until recently the number of trained health personnel dealing with leprosy is still limited.
He said, from 36 centers in Cilacap district currently only six centers that have trained officers in the handling of leprosy.
Related to the number of leprosy patients in Cilacap regency, he said, in the last two years a tendency to increase with the emergence of new patients while the local region of low endemic leprosy.
"In 2007 recorded a total of 32 leprosy patients comprising of 28 men patients with wet type or multibacillary (MB) and four types of dry or pausibasiler (PB)," he said.
Of the total patients with MB type, he said, unknown numbers of two-level defects (defects that are known prior to the examination) is very high and exceed national standards.
According to him, the figure of disability based on the level of two national standards by five percent, while in Cilacap reach 17 percent.
"In fact, two patients with MB of whom are children with disabilities rate reached 7.1 percent level two," he said.
As for 2008, he said, the number reached 35 people who are new patients, comprising 31 people type MB and four types of PB.
Of the 31 patients with MB type, he added, 11 second-degree disabled people (31 percent) with a patient with the children (3.2 percent).
He said the high rates of disability may be caused due to late in the handling of health workers has not been able to diagnose the disease and the sufferer is not aware of his illness.
"Cilacap is low endemic leprosy. However, it could be a lot of people suffered because they did not realize it. In fact, maybe an iceberg phenomenon," said Jasmo.
For that, he said, leprosy needs to be addressed so as not to cause serious disability for the sufferer.
Being asked about efforts to tackle the disease of leprosy, he said, Cilacap Health Office continues to provide counseling for former leprosy patients and those still suffering so as not to lose heart.
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All this help is much necessary for the patients.The free medicines must reach them well and care and help so that they can live with the disease and try to cure it. Plastic Surgeon Atlanta
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