Experts also recommend take-home rations apart from cash benefit

Bareilly: The state government has directed the chief medical officers of 25 “high risk” districts to conduct a door-to-door survey to for early detection, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.

According to a senior health ministry official, daily treatment regimen is likely to be more effective with lesser relapses and it is expected to reduce drug-resistance with greater compliance.

Women mostly in the age group of 20-40 yrs have this condition.

The campaign will cover 24 districts, continue till Dec 18

The fresh 2,387 tuberculosis cases this year have spurred the zilla parishad (ZP) to conduct a door-to-door campaign to eradicate the disease in the district.

ICMR to monitor 2000 patients in Jharkhand to determine role of good diet.

People who use lansoprazole to prevent conditions of acidity in the stomach are a third less likely to develop tuberculosis, a new study found.

India has been toying with the idea of UHC since 2011 when a high-level expert committee, formed by the erstwhile Planning Commission, submitted its report but nothing much came of it.

Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda on Thursday said that under the government's initiative, over 15,000 more tuberculosis (TB) cases have been detected.