1945- The US liberation forces brought in with them several representatives of major Protestant denominations to revive work in the country. Each appointed a representative to be with the PHILIPPINE EVANGELICAL LEPROSY MISSION (PELM) which was to be the conduit of the American Mission to Lepers (now American Leprosy Missions) for the spiritual and material […]
Daily Archives: April 2, 2012
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Baby, now aged 47, proudly claims to be one of the very first members of the Hansen’s Club of Philippine General Hospital, having been stricken with leprosy back in February 1997. She recalls how she was diagnosed with the disease, which began as a reddish, elevated spot on her arm. Mistaking it for a […]