Corporate sector to help fight against TB

shimla, June 20

Health and Family Welfare Minister Kaul Singh Thakur today held a consultative meeting with the corporate sector to discuss ways to implement projects to eliminate tuberculosis (TB).

The one-day meet was organised to take forward discussions between corporates and the government at the TB-Free India Summit organised earlier this year. The objective is to have a TB-Free India, through Challenge TB which is the flagship TB control programme of the USAID.

“The goal of the state government is to eliminate TB in the state by 2021, four years before the deadline set by the Centre” Thakur said. He urged the corporate sector to focus on districts with a high TB burden and conduct activities that encourage people to get screened and complete their treatment. — TNS