Revised National TB Control Programme-Punjab

02/12/2020

Kisan majdoor ekta jindabad. Long live farmers 🌾🌾🌾🌾

02/12/2020

Kisan majdoor ekta jindabad. Long live farmers 🌾🌾

29/11/2019

To achieve the target of eradicating tuberculosis (TB) from the state by 2022, the Punjab government has set a mobile wing to provide quality health

22/10/2015

http://m.timesofindia.com/india/26-lakh-TB-patients-in-India-Nearly-42000-died-in-2013-14/articleshow/48290011.cms

There are around 26 lakh tuberculosis patients in India while the estimated mortality attributable to the disease is 2.4 lakh, minister of state for health Shripad Naik told Rajya Sabha on Thursday quoting estimates of World Health Organisation.

22/10/2015

http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/free-tb-treatment-plan-a-hit-in-mumbai-ministry-to-replicate-project-in-other-cities/

Of the newly notified cases from the private sector, 6,882 have already started their free TB treatment.

19/07/2015

http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Cut-in-healthcare-budget-hits-Indias-war-on-TB/articleshow/47995910.cms

After a slash in India's healthcare budget and key public health initiatives, now the country's ambitious tuberculosis control programme is facing a serious challenge, which could jeopardise supply of medicines, and lead to inadequate diagnostic services for TB patients.

01/11/2014

http://m.timesofindia.com/city/ranchi/TB-has-killed-more-than-300-in-3-yrs/articleshow/44829239.cms

Ranchi: Jharkhand has seen a sharp rise in the number of deaths due to tuberculosis and AIDS between 2010 and 2013, shows National Aids Control Organization (Naco) data.

26/10/2014

Must watch(right now)...satmev jayante......good awareness about TB......

03/04/2014

maximum patients of TB in INDIA..but lowest budget for programme.......JAI HOO!

08/03/2014

DRTB
Resistance to drugs is compounding the problem. About 450,000 people contracted drug-resistant (DR) TB in 2012. About half of them live in India, China and Russia. Four-fifths of DR-TB cases are still undetected. There were 170,000 multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB deaths worldwide. Souece:http://www.dw.de/tb-drug-resistance-is-on-the-rise-in-india/g-17463383

08/03/2014

TB hotbed
India has the largest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world, registering 26 percent of of total number. TB is one of the deadliest infectious diseases; two people die every three minutes of TB in the South Asian country. Source:http://www.dw.de/tb-drug-resistance-is-on-the-rise-in-india/g-17463383

08/03/2014

Treatment cost for drug resistant TB is huge, nearly $4,000 (Rs 3.87 lakh) per patient per year!!!!!!!

India has been facing a severe shortage of key tuberculosis drugs (TB) across the country over the past few weeks.