VARANASI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched various initiatives including the TB-Mukt Panchayat, the official pan-India rollout of a shorter TB Preventive Treatment (TPT), the Family-centric care model for TB and the release of India’s Annual TB Report 2023 at the One World TB Summit organised in Varanasi on Friday.
The Prime Minister also laid the foundation stone of the National Centre for Disease Control & High Containment Laboratory and inaugurated the site for the Metropolitan Public Health Surveillance Unit in Varanasi.
The PM awarded select states/UTs —Karnataka and Jammu & Kashmir and at the district level Nilgiris, Pulwama and Anantnag for their progress towards ending TB.
He informed about the tech integration in the TB Free India campaign and said that Ni-kshay Portal and the use of data science are going a long way in this regard. He said that the health ministry-ICMR developed a new method for sub-national disease surveillance that has made India, apart from WHO, the only country to have this kind of model.
The Prime Minister also laid the foundation stone of the National Centre for Disease Control & High Containment Laboratory and inaugurated the site for the Metropolitan Public Health Surveillance Unit in Varanasi.
The PM awarded select states/UTs —Karnataka and Jammu & Kashmir and at the district level Nilgiris, Pulwama and Anantnag for their progress towards ending TB.
He informed about the tech integration in the TB Free India campaign and said that Ni-kshay Portal and the use of data science are going a long way in this regard. He said that the health ministry-ICMR developed a new method for sub-national disease surveillance that has made India, apart from WHO, the only country to have this kind of model.