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제목 |
Education for the Social Rehabilitation of Leprosy Patients |
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저자 |
Y.B. Moon |
소속 |
Aj Rak Won Leprsarium, Taegu, Korea |
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년도 |
1970 |
권 |
7 |
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호 |
1 |
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시작페이지 |
81 |
끝페이지 |
98 |
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요약 |
Social rehabilitation of leprosy patients is quite a problem, because they have not been
living in a normal society for a long period of time
The progress of medicine today shows that leprosy can be cured by the wise use of
a sulfone drug in the early stages of the disease. Also the disease can be stopped or “
arrested” in the advanced stage by the use of the same drug. The big problem is the
deformities produced by the disease. The degree of the deformity is hard to recognize in
the early stage of the disease, but often in the later untreated stage the deformities are
very apparent. Even when the disease is arrested the deformities still remain and it is
this frequently ugly appearance that the general puplic does net accept.
By corrective surgery and treatment of reaction cases the door to a new era in the
treatment of the disease has been opened. This demonstrates that leprosy is curable and
the deformities are preventable and correctable.
In 1968 there were about 65,000 leprosy patients in Korea, according to Kim and Lew.
In 1970 the national government, with the help of foreign aid and voluntary agences will
be giving medical care and social care to approximately 38,477 cases. It will operate on
a budget of ￦ 368,320,740 (about $ 1,315,413.). At the present time there are some
10,894 ex-leprosy patients in the settlement and resettlement villages. These are patients
who have been benefited by the general and specific treatment with the sulfones, and
with corrective surgery on some 872 of them. All this has been accomplished since
1962.
The apparent deformities due to leprosy are physical, but there are more serious
deformities which are mental and social. The leprosy patient treated in a hospital for a
long period of time tends to develop “hospitalsm”. They are not prepared to return
their home and family. Although they are discharged iron leprosy colonies and
institutions as non-infectious, arrested or cured. they are not readily accepted by the
public. Even with the help of scientists and public health workers the social
rehabilitation of the former leprosy patient is still a big problem.
An experiment in social rehabilitation was carried on with patients in Ai Rak Won
Leprosarium in 1963. Thirty-four (34) young people studied and trained to become
nurses, laboratory technicians and X-Ray technicians in a two-year course equivalent to
that of Junior College level instruction. There were also shorter courses in dressmaking,
knitting, handicrafts and horticulture. The result of this work gives reason to great
encouragement despite many problems and difficulties.
In conclusion the following opinions are presented:
1. The spread of leprosy is not yet fully known. Carriers and subclinical cases may
be the chief reservior for the mode of infection.
2. A new policy is to give domiciliary cases the sulfone treatment regularly since the
compulsory segregation low has recently been abolished. Hygienic and public health
efforts will do much for the prevention of disease.
3. Modern treatment with physical therapy and surgical procedures can restore the
physical morphology and function of leprosy patients.
4. For the social rehabilitation of leprosy patients there are social, mental and
economic factors, for which medical and social education is needed.
5. The application of preventive rehabilitation is suggested in the establishment of a
social welfare state. |
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