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A leprosy hospital in Kumbakonam immortalised by Tamil literature

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Salesian Missionaries of Mary Immaculate launched the hospital in a thatched shed in 1916. Even today, it treats 10 old patients daily and receives 60 fresh cases every year. Many come here as they can get their deformities corrected through surgery

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