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Public support sought to combat TB

Kochi: World Tuberculosis Day will be observed on March 24 in the district by the District T.B. Centre and Arogyakeralam, a society for implementing the National Rural Health Mission projects.

Addressing a press conference, P. Sreedhara Kumar, district T.B. officer, said that the message for this year’s observation was “I am also participating in the stop T.B. strategy”.

He said that the Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy along with the other components of the Stop TB strategy, being implemented under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), was a comprehensive package for TB control.

He said that the DOTS strategy was cost-effective and the international standard for TB control programmes.

He said that the disease could be prevented only with the participation of people. The new control programme aimed at finding out persons with TB and giving them proper treatment.

As part of the RNTCP, free treatment was being given to TB patients at all government hospitals and at select private hospitals.

The district-level observance of the day would be inaugurated by Fisheries Minister S. Sarma. V.K.Ebrahim Kunju, MLA, would preside.

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