UP govt screens 27 lakh citizens in special campaign to eradicate TB by 2025
The Uttar Pradesh government has screened more than 27 lakh citizens as part of a comprehensive campaign to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) from Uttar Pradesh by 2025.
The Uttar Pradesh government has screened more than 27 lakh citizens as part of a comprehensive campaign to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) from Uttar Pradesh by 2025.
Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda on Saturday held a meeting with Chief Ministers/LGs and state Health Ministers, requesting their support toward the ongoing 100-day intensified TB elimination campaign.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, on Sunday, urged the Members of Parliament (MPs) to make ‘TB Mukt Bharat’ and ‘Nasha Mukt Bharat’ campaigns a ‘Jan-Andolan’ and develop the spirit of healthy competition among themselves to make India free from Tuberculosis (TB) disease by 2025.
Emphasising that India's fight against tuberculosis just got stronger, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the starting of a special 100 day campaign today with a focus on the high burden TB districts.
In a significant acknowledgment of the country's efforts towards eradication of tuberculosis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday highlighted the nation's achievements in reducing TB incidence.
The initiative is undertaken by the Institute of Heart and Lung Diseases (IHLD) in collaboration with Krafton India.
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have decoded the mechanism that helps the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium to persist in the human body for decades.
A government medical officer TB control (MOTC) has written to the state TB officer (STO) recently expressing deep concern over the quality of medicines requesting the latter to take immediate action on the matter.
It has decided to celebrate 16 days of "Seva Pakhwara" from September 17 to October 2, the birth anniversary of the father of the nation- Mahatma Gandhi.
Under the initiative, door-to-door screening for TB was undertaken covering 68,019 villages. Based on verbal screening of 1,03,07,200 persons, 3,82,811 people were identified for presumptive TB.
