Healthcare
Leprosy is a disease that can cause serious complications, all of which require medical treatment. Through our network of hospitals, clinics, mobile clinics, and orthopaedic workshops, we offer the support that people need to lead healthy, happy lives of dignity and respect.
Through our healthcare centres we provide reconstructive surgeries, physiotherapy, assistive devices, treatment of ulcers and leprosy reaction, and counselling. Through these services we are able to address all of the medical needs that a person affected might face because of the disease.
Our hospitals and clinics provide life saving, transformative treatment and care to marginalised groups around the world.
Training and capacity building
Our teams work hard to equip the wider healthcare system to diagnose and treat leprosy wherever possible.
Healthcare projects listed
There is no one working in leprosy today who would argue that there is not a tight and painful link between a leprosy diagnosis and mental health challenges.
Dr Helen Roberts is an Ophthalmologist with The Leprosy Mission Trust India. Her opinion is that, across the leprosy sector, we are failing too many patients with inadequate eye care.
Our mobile clinics in India take medical care to where it is needed most, particularly to people who would struggle to reach a hospital.
Our mobile clinics take medical care to where the need is, travelling around districts where there is a need for leprosy support, but no local provision. Providing a combination of medical expertise and pastoral care, they are a vital part of TLM’s mission.
Our team runs a mobile prosthetics unit that travels around the country providing medical care to people who have lost their limbs, either through leprosy, or as a result of landmines that litter the country.
An overview of our self-care work
