IEP Chandigarh, April 22
Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal said that the Haryana government is determined to make the state TB-free by the year 2025, in order to realize Prime Minister, Sh. Narendra Modi’s vision to make India TB-free by 2025. “With the determination that ‘TB will lose and the country will win’, the state government is taking meaningful steps, he said, urging the TB patients to take benefits of free TB testing and treatment services available in government health institutions and spreading awareness about TB. The Chief Minister was interacting with the TB patients under the Nikshay Yojana through audio-conferencing today. During the interaction, the patients expressed gratitude to the Chief Minister for the health facilities and financial assistance being provided by the Central and State Government for the treatment. Sh. Manohar Lal said that Tuberculosis is not an incurable disease and if treated regularly for the right duration; it is completely cured. He assured all the TB patients that they would not face any problem related to nutrition and treatment. “In this direction, we are also taking the help of various organizations and social workers,” he added. He also expressed gratitude to President, Smt. Droupadi Murmu for launching the Nikshay Yojana in September, 2022 for the nutrition of TB patients. The Chief Minister called upon various organizations and corporates to adopt TB patients to nurture them. This scheme was also launched in Haryana on September 15, 2022. Under this, nutrition kits are being given to TB patients by adopting them by the Governor, Health Minister and eminent citizens, he added.The Chief Minister informed that he has also adopted five TB patients under this scheme.Nutrition kits distributed to 8,000 TB patients in the state so far under Nikshay Yojana The Chief Minister said that a portal- https://communitysupport.nikshay.in/ has been created for organizations, companies etc, who want to help TB patients in the state. “Various organizations and individuals who want to provide nutritional support to TB patients can visit this portal and register themselves by creating a login ID. They are called Nikshay Mitra. So far around 1,500 such Nikshay Mitras are registered on this portal,” he added. He said that nutrition kits have so far been distributed to 8,000 patients in the state under the Nikshay Yojana. These nutrition kits include wheat, rice, groundnut edible oil and pulses etc. This initiative has boosted the morale of TB patients and helped them to become free from the disease, he asserted. The Chief Minister urged the TB patients to contact the District TB Officer in case of help needed for nutritious food. He said that cooperation is being taken from private and corporate hospitals to expand the services of TB treatment. “Many companies have come forward and cooperated extensively in this work. Various corporate companies have adopted 13 districts to make them TB free. Medanta Hospital is conducting an intensive campaign by mobile vans to check TB patients in Yamunanagar and Karnal. In Rewari district too, new TB patients are being screened by a company with the help of mobile van, which has been named as Sankalp Project,” he said.
