{"id":2642,"date":"2021-01-31T08:04:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T08:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2021-01-31T08:12:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T08:12:46","slug":"world-leprosy-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"World Leprosy Day 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is World Leprosy Day 2021 . This day is observed to increase awareness of the disease which, according to the World Health Organisation, nearly 600 people are diagnosed with everyday. Part of Lalgadh Hospital\u2019s work is to create prosthetic limbs and to make specialist footwear for those affected. To donate to NLT click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?page_id=423\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2645\" style=\"width: 1008px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Shoe-dept65-LoRes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Shoe-dept65-LoRes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Shoe-dept65-LoRes.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Shoe-dept65-LoRes-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Shoe-dept65-LoRes-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lalgadh Hospital Footwear development. Photo: E. Thomas \u00a9NLT Ireland\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2646\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3440-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3440-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3440-crop.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3440-crop-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lalgadh Hospital Footwear Department. Photo: E. Thomas \u00a9NLT Ireland\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is World Leprosy Day 2021 . This day is observed to increase awareness of the disease which, according to the World Health Organisation, nearly 600 people are diagnosed with everyday. Part of Lalgadh Hospital\u2019s work is to create prosthetic limbs and to make specialist footwear for those affected. To donate to NLT click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}