Sekifusha Publisher

Quoted from the preface, "This guidebook uses case photographs that have been carefully selected from a set of 4,000 shots taken in the Peshawar area from 1984 onwards by Mr. Shigeo Matsumoto (a laboratory technician who previously worked for the National Oku Komyoen Leprosarium, Japan). The guidebook also describes the situation in NWFP and north-eastern Afghanistan in an easily understandable way by making full use of the photographs as well as the textbooks used in the training of Peshawar-kai Medical Services (PMS) nurses and laboratory technicians. Translated texts on diseases, including Hansen's disease, describe cases, situations and treatments in other countries are not all applicable to NWFP and northeastern Afghanistan. Available examination procedures and treatments, the patients' description of symptoms, and common symptom patterns, as well as complications in these areas, are different from those reported in cases found in other countries. In particular, it is the treatment approaches seen in Afghanistan and NWFP that are the most peculiar to the local situation". (This book was published through the prize money of the 2003 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding and with the cooperation of many people from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Japan.)(5)

https://hdl.handle.net/2324/4362892