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This webinar focuses on the efforts of healthcare professionals who work at the grassroots level to detect leprosy cases and prevent disability amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and introduce some success stories with aim of developing measures that can be adopted to suit the situation.

• Date: Thursday, 20th January, 2022
• Time: 10:00-11:30 (UTC)
• Duration: 90 min.
• Language: English
• Simultaneous Interpretation: French, Portuguese, Hindi, Bahasa, Nepali, Bengali and Japanese.
• Program :
  1. Greetings from organizer (00:00-00:05)
     Mr. Yohei Sasakawa, WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination
  2. Guest speech  (00:05-00:15)
     Representative of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, India
     Video Message: Mr. Birodh Khatiwada, Minister of Health and Population, Nepal
  3. Good practice 1: Case -finding in India amid the COVID pandemic (00:15-00:35)
     – Health Worker
     Ms. Anju Sharma, Accredited Social Health Activist
     – Health ministry official
     Dr. Anil Kumar, Deputy Director General (Leprosy), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India
  4. Good practice 2: Disability and ulcer care in Nepal amid the COVID pandemic (00:35-00:55)
     – Health Worker
     Dr. Indra Napit, Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon at Anandaban Hospital, The Leprosy Mission Nepal
     – Health ministry official
     Dr. Rabindra Baskota, Director, Leprosy Control and Disability Management Section, Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal
  5. Comments (00:55-01:05)
     – Person Affected by Leprosy
     Mr. Dinesh Basnet, President of IDEA Nepal
     – Health Expert
     Dr. Venkata Ranganadha Rao Pemmaraju, Acting Team Leader, WHO Global Leprosy Programme
  6. Panel discussion and Q&A session (01:05-01:25)
     Moderator: Prof. Takahiro Nanri, Executive Director, Sasakawa Health Foundation