Indonesian leprosy survivor crafts new limbs for shunned villagers
When Ali Saga visited a clinic in Jakarta four decades ago, he watched as patients and health workers scrambled to get away from him
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When Ali Saga visited a clinic in Jakarta four decades ago, he watched as patients and health workers scrambled to get away from him
Indonesian leprosy survivor crafts new limbs for shunned villagers
When Ali Saga visited a clinic in Jakarta four decades ago, he watched as patients and health workers scrambled to get away from him.
FEATURE-Forgotten but not gone: COVID-19 focus poses new risks to 'invisible' leprosy sufferers Reuters 1/27/2021 By Randy Mulyanto and Beh Lih Yi JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - F irst it was the neighbours who started avoiding Indonesian food hawker Titi Amaliyah. Then regular customers stopped buying her traditional noodle snacks when word spread that she had been diagnosed with leprosy. Since her diagnosis last year, Amaliyah and her family have been dependent on her husband's income from odd jobs, which has dwindled due to the coronavirus pandemic. With thre...