Grand function at Skin diseases hospital Chevayoor

Today  ...it  was a great and disturbing day for me. I attended a function at Skin diseases  hospital Chevayoor which was previously called Government leprosy hospital .SYS Sahayi group renovated two wards with modern amenities and the function was it's submission to the user's.  Usthad  AP Aboobacker Musliyar was the chief  guest.Dr.Ajith Kumar VT and other dignitaries  attended the function. The function was simple and elegant.
In my mbbs days 1981to  87 , I used to visit Chevayoor leprosy center very regularly. My senior Dr.Roy pulickan introduced my to the inmates in those days. We used to collect dresses and other useful items for them and used to spend time with them .There were more than 100 inmates there . All inmates were completely  cured victims of leprosy . But the social stigma and disfigured  facies and hands made them miserable and they were out casted from families. They forced to spend their whole life in the sanitarium.
I lost connection with this place and people ...may be my ignorance or changed my priority. The place was so cool and calm ,old and nostalgic. It is inside the city. .a 100 cents land with greens ..evening blessed with breeze and chirping of birds ...it is Devine too. But for the inmstes with cursed life may not feel it.
Very interestingly  in last 40 years Calicut city has been changed a lot. Now Calicut look like a well developed forgien city. But this leprosy sanitarium has no change. Old building ...poor facilities and few of the inmates are the same people that I met 40 years ago. Only change the center name changed to "Govt.Skin disease center "
We claimed that we are educated with 100 percent  literacy rate. But I believe that we are not . We are keeping the same stigma ...At least their on families don't want them. Leprosy is like TB .100 percent curable.
The day is disturbing when I am leaving the center.
SALUTE  SYS for the present initiatives.