New Delhi: According to Union Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar on Monday, the prevalence rate of leprosy in the country has decreased from 0.69 per 10,000 population in 2014-15 to 0.45 in 2021-22.
At a ceremony commemorating National Anti-Leprosy Day, Pawar reported that the yearly new case detection rate has dropped from 9.73 per 1,00,000 people in 2014–15 to 5.52 in 2021–22.