Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center
The Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center (MALC), English Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center is a medical care center for leprosy , tuberculosis and the visually impaired in Karachi-Saddar .
history
The German leprosy doctor and religious sister Ruth Pfau founded the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center in Karachi in 1962. It was named after Adélaïde-Marie Champion de Cicé , the founder of the Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary . After 1962, Inayat K. Gill also worked for a while in the treatment of lepers. From the beginning of the 1990s, the Paderborn internist Hanne Glodny has been committed to the sick for over 20 years.
In the following decades, branches were established in Azad Kashmir , Balochistan , Gilgit-Baltistan , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh . Medical treatments are free of charge for the patient. Volunteer specialists help, but the staff consists mainly of ex-patients trained to diagnose, treat, and record the disease. Leprosy has only been curable since 1982. Based on experience and with targeted medication , the infectious diseases can be cured within six to twelve months.
The German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Aid e. V. (DAHW) in Würzburg has been one of the main sponsors of the MALC supply center in Pakistan since the 1960s . In cooperation with the Christoffel-Blindenmission , the relief organization MALC combats eye diseases that previously led to blindness.
literature
- Ruth Pfau with Michael Albus (Ed.): And wouldn't have love. 50 years in Pakistan. 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-30297-8
- Magdalena Heikel: My time with Ruth Pfau in Pakistan. In: Die Klapper 16 (2008)
Web links
- Website MALC (English)
- MALC in Pakistan
Coordinates: 24 ° 52 ' N , 67 ° 1' E