Certainly, in working with leprosy patients, physical touch was very important, because many of the people who I worked with had come from communities where they have been shunned and where people have not wanted to touch them anymore for feeling of a little bit of untouchability in the sense the people literally will be afraid that-"I might catch this thing.
कुष्ठरोग आणि कुष्ठरोग्यांच्या समवेत काम करीत असताना मानवी स्पर्श हा अनेकदा अत्यंत महत्त्वाचा ठरतो. कारण ण पाहिले असेल की बऱ्याच जा अशा लवकर बर् या न होणार् या व असाध्य रोग्यांना त्यांच्या वेदने सहित टाकून दिले जातील किंवा घरच्यांकडून बहिष्कृत करून सोडून दिले जाते.