DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2016.v04i10.061

Pages: 3856-3858

Leprosy or Hansen’s disease is one of the oldest and most deadly diseases. It is still considered stigma and discrimination because of the deformities it produced, mystery present in its etiology and transmission and till recently lack of effective treatment. The present study was done to study the prevalence of the leprosy patients visiting to the medical college. The study was done over a period of 1 year in the department of dermatology and medicine of the SMBT medical college, Dhamangaon, Ghoti, Nasik. Patients visiting to the department and confirming the diagnosis of leprosy were taken into consideration. Detail case history of the patients was recorded including the duration, site of lesions and other symptoms. Out of the total patients visited to the department, 31 patients were found to have leprosy. Gender-wise distribution of the patients had shown that, more number of males (54.83%) was affected as compared to females (45.16%). On comparison of the time period of leprosy patients coming to the hospital, it was found that winter months shown more number of patients as compared to the other months. There is need to increase the awareness of the leprosy in the common public, so that thses patients can approach the hospitals at early stage.