Number of leprosy patients on the rise in Bagmati Province

According to the data of Health Directorate in Hetauda, the province has 367 leprosy cases in the current fiscal year, a rise from 209 cases in the last fiscal.

Thirty-nine-year-old Kanchhimaya Chepang of Khairang in Raksirang Rural Municipality Ward No. 9 has lost her fingers and toes to leprosy. She said she was also driven out of her village after she contracted the disease.