Sustainable Mumbai - LSS
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- Sustainable Mumbai - LSS
- Advantages
- 1980s - 4000 leprosy patients in Dharavi and Baiganwadi
- 2007 - 219 patients in both slums
- Focuses on sanitation, activities and vermiculture (worms that eat waste and produces compost)
- What it does
- Surveys community for skin diseases
- Sets up dermatology (skin care) clinics
- Runs pharmacies for medication for the skin diseases
- Has nurseries for young children to help parents
- Education / Community
- 'SET'
- Surveys - detects people with leprosy and TB
- Educates - people about treatment and symptoms
- Treats - Give patients complete treatment and has follow-up check-ups
- Teaches about other diseases (eg. Typhoid) and personal care
- Uses theatre to teach about symptoms and accessibility of the clinics
- 'SET'
- What is it?
- Raises own fund and has its own volunteers
- Set up in 1976 in Chunabhatti on the edge of Dharavi
- It controls the rate of the spread of leprosy which is infectious
- Bottom - up
- Advantages
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