Volunteer Nurse Brings Hope to Cured Lepers

One day in 2002 Fu Pochu, an energetic and determined retiree from Hong Kong, decided to take on a very special mission -- she would go to live in a . Fashion accessories are decorative items that supplement one's garment, such as fashion jewellery,wholesale jewellery.leper colony in Guangdong Province, not far from her hometown, and offer free care to the people living there. That momentous decision has brought balm to the wounds and the hearts of hundreds of lepers in southern China.Fu is the only nurse at Tanshan Leper Rehabilitation Village in Gaoming District of Foshan City. She has devoted three years of her life to improving medical care in the village and helping patients who have been cured of the disease to live a more normal life.
In the past,. Fashion accessories are decorative items that supplement one's garment, such as fashion jewellery,gold jewellery,women's jewellery.You can wholesale jewellery. people diagnosed with the terrible disease were banished from their villages and forced to live in isolation.Thanks to Fu's efforts, ordinary people's fears about the rehabvillage are melting away. People . The idea that a small Necklace is dangerous to patients is at best absurd.from all walks of life are showing greater understanding of the lepers and aid is pouring in. Once incurable, leprosy can be easily cured with a six to 12-month multi-therapy antibiotic treatment introduced in 1982. However, pockets of infection still remain in impoverished parts of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Tibet in the west.
The disease used to be so feared in China that victims were burnt or buried alive. From the 1950s, sufferers were exiled to far-flung places so they would have no contact with the public. China stopped institutionalizing leprosy sufferers in the 1980s, but hundreds of leper colonies remain.
They are home to about 200,000 recovered lepers and their descendants, who have little or no hope of ever rejoining societybecause of the stigma attached to the disease. No longer infectious, the recovered lepers still bear the scars of the disease that destroys the skin, peripheral nerves and mucous membranes, resulting in the loss of fingers, toes and limbs and damage to eyes.Many lepers are so cut . Since it was created by chanel jewelry in 1985, the dress has made numerous comebacks.off from the rest of the world that lifein the colonies is more comparable to China half a century ago than now.