{"id":60,"date":"2011-03-05T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/?p=60"},"modified":"2011-03-05T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:25:32","slug":"home-for-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/archives\/60","title":{"rendered":"Home for the blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blindness is an occasional complication of leprosy.<\/p>\n<p>The plight of a BLIND leprosy patient is pathetic beyond words.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2018normal\u2019 blind person manages to grope his way thro\u2019 somehow with his sensitive hands and feet.  But very often a leprosy patient has no feelings in his hands and feet.  In other words, he is blind in his hand and feet.  He is also blind in the eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Such blind leprosy patients come to Peikuam, lamenting,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoctor Sir, God has been so cruel\u201d, I am too disabled even to beg. I have come seeking shelter in your hospital. Please don\u2019t say, \u2018there is no room\u2019.  We cannot go back, and we will not go back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And they don\u2019t.  Blind leprosy patients and desperately disabled patients are admitted immediately and sheltered for life.<br \/>\nThanks to DIK for gifting a building for these hopelessly helpless patients \u2013 DIK MERCY HOME &#8211; 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blindness is an occasional complication of leprosy. The plight of a BLIND leprosy patient is pathetic beyond words. A \u2018normal\u2019 blind person manages to grope his way thro\u2019 somehow with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}