Dhan Bahadur lives in Bhadrapur Municipality, Jhapa. Primarily, he had an infection on his leg so he visited the nearest Health post and he was suspected of being suffered from leprosy and was referred to Mechi Zonal Hospital. He was identified to be suffered from leprosy. At that time, he was only 12 years old. After the identification of the disease he was counseled by Doctors and instructed to take medicine. As per the instruction of the doctors he took medicine regularly for 24 months. He suffered from deformity when he ignored medicine intake as a result USG diagnosis confirmed that his leg was severely infected. Dhan Bahadur laments that his childhood was not normal as other children enjoyed. He shares the pitiful moments when he had to alienate himself from his friends in playground because of the social stigma that leprosy was communicable disease. However, he was well supported by his family members and did not face such humiliation and discrimination at home.

Later, in the year 2060 BS, he got married and gave birth to two healthy and adorable children. Happiness comes with cost. Being a father, he felt relentless responsibility to support his family. But the burden of disease did not allow him to secure financial resources for his family. He shares that due to his never healing like wounds he could never add up happiness in his family neither for his parents nor for his children.

One day Community Health Facilitator/ Mobilizer (CHM) from Biswas project visited his house based on the information availed from health facility. The CHM provided counseling to him and suggested to visit Aanandaban Leprosy Hospital in Lalitpur for further treatment. On 2079/3/11 Tuesday he visited Aanandaban Hospital and started his treatment from 2079/3/16. Surgery was applied for the first time on his severely infected leg. After 10 days of operation he recuperated and was discharged from the Hospital.

Dhan Bahadur expresses his sincere gratitude to Biswash Project. He says, “I never thought that my disease would ever heal and I will recover”. Now he has acquired a new normal life. The disease which prevented him to conduct normal daily activities is all gone. Nowadays he supports his family in household chores and agriculture, partially engaging in economic activities as well. He adds up, “I am very happy now because my wound has stopped to infection after operation”. He pledged the Biswas Project to support other people similar people who are suffered from the diseases so they can also be recovered and live their life happily.