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dated January 30, 1958: Fight against tuberculosis

Inaugurating the 14th All-India Tuberculosis Workers’ Conference in Chennai on January 29, Mr. Bishnuram Medhi, Governor of Madras, pleaded for united effort on the part of the Governments, both at the Centre and in the States, and all non-official organisations to combat tuberculosis in the country. Mr. D.P. Karmarkar, Union Minister for Health, said that malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy and cancer presented four big national problems. He felt that with adequate resources and an equally strong will on the part of the people as a whole, it should be possible to look forward to the elimination of tuberculosis to a large extent. Dr. K. S. Sanjivi, presiding over the conference, emphasised that it was most important to remember that infection in infancy was the fundamental etiological factor of tuberculosis occurring immediately or much later in adult life. He said that it should be tackled as an infectious disease and to-day they have “much higher hopes” of eradicating itthan they had even ten years back.

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