A Belgian leprologist, Dr M. Hemmerjiks, helped the Government of India to fight leprosy. Dr Hemmerjiks was sent to India by a Belgian charitable organization - a realistic form of thanks for the shipments of tea which the Government of India sent to Belgium in 1954 for those Belgians made homeless by the great flood.

A European nurse, a member of Dr Hemmerjiks' team, registers patients.

c.1959