Hansen's Disease Case Study

On the National Hansen’s Disease Programs Registry there are approximately 6,500 cases in the United States. This reported includes the patients that are still living with the disease. The number of cases with active disease and requiring drug treatment or management is approximately 3,300. Hansen’s disease is transmitted by respiratory tract which mean the bacteria is found in the nose. The mission at the National Hansen’s Disease Programs is to educate patients and health care provider, conduct research, and provide direct medical services to Hansen’s disease patients in the Louisiana. In 1894 the Louisiana State Legislature established a Board to run Louisiana Leper Home located in Carville, LA. The Hansen hospital provided individual dormitory rooms for 450 patients. Also, it provided recreation building and separate living facility for the Daughters of Charity. However, the patients that remained on site as an ambulatory care patient giving a lifetime medical stipend and other patients relocated to hospital in Baton Rouge. Now, the facility is own by the Nation Guard. Patients that is living with leprosy relocated to the St. Clare Manor in Baton Rouge which is a nonprofit nursing

The clinic only sees two to five patients at a time each week. The services provided at the National Hansen’s Disease Clinical are free consultations for patients for physicians treating complicated disease which includes referrals for foot surgery and reconstructive hand surgery, free pathologic review of skin biopsy and consultation concerning molecular techniques, antibiotics for leprosy treatment, free educational materials, and surgical care and rehabilitation for those referred for complicated wounds or reconstruction of correctable deformity resulting from Hansen’s