Campaign to free Haryana from TB

According to recent report, India is at rank one in term of total number of deaths due to TB. This disease causes the highest numbers of death in world. Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB (tubercle bacillus), is a widespread, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit respiratory fluids through the air.

Haryana Govt chaired by CM Manohar Lal Khattar announced the launch of a campaign to free Haryana of tuberculosis (TB). State Government will collaborate with Medanta-The Medicity for the “TB free Haryana” campaign, which will be supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan will be the brand ambassador of the campaign.

• As part of the campaign, Medanta hospital will conduct a survey in slums to identify TB patients.
•   Health camps will be conducted in those areas and medicines will be distributed on the spot.
•   Patients will be diagnosed with the help of portable digital chest X-ray machines installed in vans.
• These vans will travel to various districts in three phases in the next five years to make Haryana free of TB. Two such vans were flagged off on November 20.
•  The districts to be covered in the first phase include Rewari, Gurgaon, Mewat, Palwal and Jhajjar. All 21 districts of Haryana will be covered in the three phases for which five such mobile vans will be rolled out.

By: Vishal