It kills two people every three minutes

Tuberculosis, popularly known as TB is one of the biggest health threats in India. It kills two people every three minutes. Mostly the economically weak people suffers a lot as they lack of proper medical facilities. Three million people develop tuberculosis in the Southeast Asian region every year, India reporting 22% of these (The latest World Health Organisation (WHO) report). TB is still a grave health threat in India, leading to 2.2 million new cases every year. India account for one-fifth of the global cases of TB.

The Government’s Program:

Under the RNTCP the government implemented Directly Observed Treatment, Short Course (DOTS) strategy, recommended by the WHO. DOTS aims to ensure that every tuberculosis patient completes the full six-month course of treatment, typically involving four drugs. If the complete treatment is not followed, serious complications like relapse or development of drug resistant TB may occur. Thus, the need to monitor patients continually, until they complete the full course and recover is highly essential. But in our country this does not happen properly as results one fourth of drug resistant TB cases in the world are found in India.

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