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‘Remove blind beliefs about TB’

Bidar: The government departments and non-governmental organisations should work hard towards eradicating blind beliefs about tuberculosis, World Health Organisation representative Satish More said in Bidar on Friday. He was speaking at a meeting of the revised TB eradication programme. NGOs should create awareness among the people that TB was fully curable. Curing one person of TB would mean that all possible infections from him to others had been avoided. Doctors and volunteers in the field should realise this.

The Government had come up with a scheme to provide an incentive of Rs. 250 to each patient who was cured of TB. District TB Control Officer Marthand Kashempur said about 1.8 million people died of TB in the world every year. People aged between 15 and 60 were the usual targets of the disease.

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