Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh's health department has decided to extend its intensive tuberculosis (TB) detection campaign to all 75 districts, aiming to tackle the increasing threat of the disease. This initiative, directed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, was previously limited to 15 high-priority districts.
Parth Sarthi Sen Sharma, Principal Secretary of Health and Family Welfare, issued the directive to district magistrates and divisional commissioners, instructing them to implement the campaign across their respective regions.
The campaign will focus on critical areas like tracing, testing, treatment, and technology, emphasizing the importance of inter-departmental coordination. Sharma urged all stakeholders to actively participate, highlighting the need for collective efforts to ensure the campaign's success.
During a recent review of the TB control program, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath called for a mission-mode approach to expedite progress toward achieving the state's TB eradication goals.
In a statement reported by The Times of India, the Chief Minister said, "The TB eradication campaign must become a movement, and public participation is essential. We need to use the COVID-19 pandemic management strategy as a blueprint to eradicate the disease."
The intensified 100-day TB detection campaign, launched on December 7 by Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel, began in districts including Barabanki, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Hathras, Pilibhit, Pratapgarh, Rae Bareli, Rampur, Siddharth Nagar, Sitapur, and Sultanpur.
In an earlier development aimed at eradicating TB by 2025—five years ahead of the global target—the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare introduced the BPaLM regimen under its National TB Elimination Program (NTEP). This novel treatment focuses on addressing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
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