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Aiming for a TB-free Delhi
Staff Reporter
“Delhi still has over 40,000 tuberculosis patients who could be cured”
NEW DELHI: The Mayor of Delhi, Arti Mehra, has urged the city’s medical fraternity and other citizens to work towards making the Capital tuberculosis-free.
Speaking on the occasion of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s TB Awareness Programme at Gulabi Bagh here on Friday, Ms. Mehra said: “It is a matter of great concern that Delhi still has over 40,000 tuberculosis patients who could be cured only if they strictly followed the full course of anti-TB regimen of drugs.”
She said that the MCD was running over 600 DOT centres in collaboration with the Delhi Government and non-government organisations. Any person suspecting tuberculosis infection could get a thorough check-up done at these DOT centres.
Delhi TB Control Officer R.P. Vashishth said the revised TB Control Programme had raised the curative percentage to over 85 per cent while the mortality rate had come down from 15-20 per cent to 3 per cent. The Mayor distributed blankets to several TB patients.
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