Mumbai, Nov 14 (PTI) The Maharashtra government will screen 8.66 crore persons and 1.73 crore households across the state for leprosy case detection from November 17 to December 2.

Through this screening dive the state government is continuing its annual initiative to identify leprosy patients through an extensive door-to-door survey across all districts following the guidelines of the Centre, the state health department said in a statement.

"For this, 65,832 teams and 13,166 supervisors have been deployed. Each team, comprising one ASHA worker and one male volunteer, will visit 20 houses daily in rural areas and 25 to 30 houses in urban areas to conduct physical examinations. The teams will carry out the survey for 14 consecutive days," the statement added.

Patients identified with lep

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