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In the 1940s, a treatment was developed that could arrest the spread of the disease in the body. To dispense this treatment, a Leprosarium was built in Ankaful, near Cape Coast, on government land. Soon, word spread and patients arrived.
Treatment was long-term, often up to 15 years. Patients were allowed to "squat" on hospital land and establish temporary shelters made with mud and straw (see left). This area became known as Ankaful Camp. Residents lived with great hardship, usually disabled and disfigured, shunned by the healthy, unable to work, threatened by floods and droughts and exiled from their families and villages. |
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