Haryana Govt chaired by CM Manohar Lal Khattar announced the launch of a campaign tofree Haryana of tuberculosis (TB).State Govt 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).
- Brand ambassador of the campaign – Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan
- 119 TB units, 260 microscopic centres and 8,245 Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course (DOTS) centres are functioning under the TB programme in Haryana.
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.
The vans will travel to various districts in three phases in the next 5 years to make Haryana free of TB. Two such vans were flagged off. The districts to be covered in thefirst phase include Rewari, Gurgaon, Mewat, Palwal and Jhajjar.
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