Kishan Reddy launches 100 days intensive TB campaign in 9 Telangana districts
7 Dec 2024 4:00 PM IST
Union Minister for Coal and Mines G Kishan Reddy on Saturday launching a 100 days intensive TB campaign in nine districts of Telangana (Photo: By Arrangement)
Hyderabad: BJP state president and Union minister G. Kishan Reddy launched the 100-day Tuberculo
Announcing that he will adopt some TB patients, the minister informed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had launched a TB eradication programme of Rs 22,000 crore, had adopted a few TB patients and encouraged the public to come forward to do so. The programme is named “Nikshaya Mitrulu” (friends to remove TB).
Noting that awareness about the disease has improved in recent years, Kishan Reddy said the TB eradication programme had earlier focused on preventing the spread of disease, but now the focus has shifted to its eradication, like polio. He also stated s that the government has increased monthly financial assistance to TB patients from Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 under the “No-Kshaya Poshan Scheme” to provide the patients with nutritious food during treatment.
( Source : Deccan Chronicle )
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