Government efforts to eradicate leprosy have been largely successful across the country though the problem persists in States like Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Jharkhand and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, said Health Services Director Prof Jagdish Prasad at a function held at the SOA University here on Saturday.
Prasad said the government has launched a door-to-door campaign to identify leprosy cases and 40,000 cases had been detected after health workers had visited 40 crore houses in these identified areas. In Odisha 5,100 new cases were identified. SOA Vice-Chancellor Prof Amit Banerjee presided over the meeting.