With No Staff at This Mumbai Hospital, Leprosy Patients Turn Doctors, Ward Boys

It's Asia's richest civic body, boasting of an annual budget of Rs 30,000 crore. And it runs Mumbai's only specialised centre for leprosy patients. But it seems the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation has no money for these patients afflicted with a disease that brings with it social stigma. The leprosy patients at Mumbai's Acworth Hospital have no choice but to tend to each other's wounds, sweep and mop the floors of the hospital and even water the plants. All this because the hospital has practically no staff.