The asylum of the old colony of Maracanaú (Ceará). Maria Barros doesn’t know how old is she. She arrived here when she was 20
The asylum of the old colony of Maracanaú (Ceará). Maria Barros doesn’t know how old is she. She arrived here when she was 20 and loss the notion of the time. “The girls” share room and her handmaids decorated it. After India, Brazil has the second highest number of leprosy infections in the world, accounting for 90% of cases in Latin America. Dr Francisco Reis Viana, who has been treating leprosy at the Curupaiti Hospital in Rio for the past 30 years, says that finding all of those infected is still a huge challenge. "The situation in Brazil is grave. The country has 30,000 new cases each year and it's difficult to contain because the disease is spread out and it's hard to diagnose and treat everyone," he told BBC reporter Julia Carneiro.
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