Mumbai: The Maharashtra government is set to launch a statewide leprosy case detection campaign from November 17 to December 2, during which health teams will conduct a door-to-door survey across all districts.

Following the Central Government's guidelines, the state is continuing its annual initiative to identify leprosy patients through an extensive door-to-door survey across all districts.

This year, a population of 8.66 crore people and 1,73,25,000 households has been selected for screening.

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A total of 65,832 teams and 13,166 supervisors have been deployed for the campaign. Each team, containing one ASHA worker and one male volunteer, will visit 20 houses in rural areas and 25 to 30 houses in urban a

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