The Free India TB Campaign and the Ayushman Bharat Anti-TB Patient Initiative were launched by the Central Government with the support of State governments to eradicate TB by the end of 2025. PM Narendra Modi launched a National Strategy Plan for TB India Free Campaign from 2017 to 2025. A year after the initiative was launched in TB Submit of New Delhi on 13 March2018, hosted by the Union Minister and in partnership with WHO South East Asia Regional Office and Stop TB with PM Narendra.
79,144 deaths were recorded in the 2020 Indian TB report in 2019.
Free treatment has been provided through the Government Hospital Campaign in the Community Health Center and the Primary Health Centre. Dot centres have also been a provider of direct observation and treatment to residential patients. Over 13000 centres are available free of charge. CB NAAT and Truenat testing facilities are also available in India.
The government has also launched an online Nikshay Tool to monitor the TB control programme, a universal patient monitoring and treatment monitoring system, and patients can register on the website to receive government assistance. The programme was developed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Division and the National Information Technology Center NIC, launched by the Government of India on 4 June 2012.
TB is completely curable, caused by a bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria mainly attack the lungs, but they can also attack any part of the body, such as the kidney spine and the brain. But not every patient has symptoms. It's hard to detect, therefore, sometimes.
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