IAD's treatment protocol is the best community health program in resource poor setting

Terence Ryan, MA, BCh, BM, DM, FRCP, Emeritus professor of Dermatology Oxford University, UK

Saravu R. Narahari, DVD, MD, Director, Institute of Applied Dermatology, Kasaragod, Kerala

M.G. Aggithaya, MD, Institute of Applied Dermatology, Kasaragod, Kerala

G.K. Swamy, MD,Director, National Ayurveda Research Institute for Panchakarma, CCRAS, Kerala

Introduction

The morbidity of lymphoedema makes family wage earners both poor and dependent. The only public health program of proven effectiveness, in any endemic country, is self-care integrative medicine (IM) for lymphoedema of any aetiology, including lymphatic filariasis (LF). The following describes our experience of treating 4000 patients in a medical centre at Kasaragod, Kerala, and in Indian endemic villages.

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