Leprosy Rehabilitation Village

Abuluoha Village is a leprosy rehabilitation village, located in Xichang City Liangshan Prefecture town of Butuo drag black depend rural feel, compared to the remote location. Built in 1966, but until 2008 it was officially incorporated into the village administrative territory. Prior to this, many leprosy same village, where everything is not perceived by the outside world.

But until now, although villagers have free access, but the village is still no way through, and out of need to go three to five hours mountain village Ebuluoha still closed; plus discrimination still exists, so they are still difficult with the outside world close.

In the 1950s and 1960s, due to infection caused by leprosy has been dubbed the physically disabled evil ghosts that people have distanced themselves from him. Fear caused by ignorance and misunderstanding of its contagious, so when the number of provinces also individually isolate the disposal of the lepers. In a closed leprosy village, the government will arrange and materials required for the most basic of life for them, and regularly send medicine.

They self-sufficiency in the village, married, living seems no different from the previous life. However, once they were placed in this, we will not be allowed to leave, many of the first generation of the villagers since they never return to their original homes, even before the death can not be with their families goodbye on the side.