India aims to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025
The central government is working to eradicate tuberculosis (TB)from
India by 2025 besides taking active measures to eliminate diseases like
kala-azar and measles from the country, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan
said on Saturday.
“By 2025, we
wish to eliminate tuberculosis from India. We have taken up an ambitious universal
immunisation programme delivered to 100 per cent people all over the country,”
the minister told media persons on the sidelines of the Rotary India Centennial
Summit here.
He said to achieve the goal, the government’s
programme ‘Mission Indradhanush’ is already operational.
“We are also working for the elimination of many other
diseases in the country like Kala-azar and measles,” the minister said.
Referring to the Union government’s Ayushman Bharat
scheme, he called it an “ambitious programmes, under which
1.5 lakh health and wellness centres will be set up across India by the end of
2022.
“So far, 30,000 are being set up and by March-end we
will have around 40,000 centres”, he said.
17.02.2020
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