- Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar chairs the Brainstorming Session on Strategies for ending TB by 2025
- We need to shift gears and come up with innovative solutions to make up for the setbacks due to COVID-19 and move beyond: Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar
- “Our aim is early detection and prevention of new cases of TB by expanding TB care through engagement of various stakeholders”
New Delhi, November 10, 2021:
Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar today chaired the brainstorming session on Strategies for Ending TB by 2025.
Reiterating Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s commitment to eliminate TB in India by 2025, five years ahead of the SDG targets, Dr Pawar said, “We have a mere 37 months before the deadline to end TB in the country. We need to shift gears and come up with innovative solutions to make up for the setbacks due to COVID-19 and move beyond.”
Highlighting the Union Government’s efforts for TB eradication, she added: “TB has now been made an essential part of Comprehensive Primary Health Care and is integrated with Ayushman Bharat scheme. Our aim is to detect cases early and prevent the emergence of new cases of TB by expanding TB care through engagement of various stakeholders, including the community. The nationwide TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan has been launched in this regard.” Mentioning the introduction of newer anti-TB drugs, newer regimens and programmes, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar appreciated the research and development efforts to combat TB.
The session focused on 5 pillars including improving case detection, improving treatment adherence, evolving ways to converge with other social welfare programs, utilizing and refining private sector engagement and finally integration of NTEP within our Health system for accelerating TB eradication in the country.
Ms Arti Ahuja, Additional Secretary (Health) & Director General (NTEP), Dr. Sudarshan Mandal, DDG TB CTD, Dr. Nishant Kumar, Joint Director (TB), CTD, Dr. Sanjay K Mattoo, Joint Director (TB), CTD, Dr. Raghuram Rao, Joint Director (TB), CTD, Dr. Alok Mathur, Additional DDG (TB), eminent experts, public health specialists and state officials were present at the meeting.
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