If you are traveling abroad, certain medical examinations are necessary for each person. But some countries have made a medical test absolutely compulsory for Indians: the tuberculosis test. In fact, the reason is that, according to the World Health Organization, India has the highest number of tuberculosis patients in the world. In 2018, PM Modi launched the TB-Free India campaign. But given the growing number of patients suffering from this disease, will India be able to achieve this target by 2025? Will the global goal of eliminating tuberculosis be achieved by 2030?
Let’s talk openly about the state of this disease on the ground in India.
16-year-old Harshita Singh is under a lot of tension regarding her 12th class exams. A student of Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in Jahangirpuri, she has not been to school for three months and also skipped her pre-board exams after being diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) in July. Sitting on the bed in the family’s one-bedroom apartment in Block D of Jahangirpuri, Harshita, wrapped in a green jacket and duvet, is very tense about her future.
According to the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report by 2024 and the India Tuberculosis Report by 2024, India will not be able to achieve the 2025 milestone set by the WHO Strategy. WHO to end TB. Achieving the ambitious goal of eliminating tuberculosis by 2025 is far from achievable. Even in 2023, India has not been able to achieve the 2020 milestone of the End TB Strategy, both in terms of incidence and deaths. India’s target In 2018, the central government set India an ambitious target: to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025. The aim is to achieve this five years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goals target (UN SDG) of 2030. Prime Minister Modi reiterated this goal at the One World TB Summit in Varanasi in March 2023.
SDG targets for tuberculosis:
The SDG goal is to reduce TB deaths by 90% and TB incidence by 80% by 2030 compared to 2015 levels.
Additionally, the WHO TB Elimination Strategy aims to reduce TB deaths by 75% and TB incidence by 50% by 2025 compared to 2015 levels.
India’s Progress: According to India TB Report 2024
Tuberculosis incidence rate (per 100,000) Tuberculosis mortality rate (per 100,000) Reduction in tuberculosis incidence (%) Reduction in tuberculosis mortality (%)
India’s Progress: Per 1 lakh population, says India TB Report 2024
India has failed to meet the “elimination” targets set for 2023 by India’s National Strategic Plan for TB Elimination. That is, reduce the estimated incidence rate of tuberculosis to 77 per lakh population and reduce the estimated number of deaths due to tuberculosis to six per 1,00,000 population.
What is tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
TB usually affects the lungs (pulmonary TB), but can also affect other parts (extrapulmonary TB). Tuberculosis is spread from person to person through the air. When people infected with tuberculosis cough, sneeze, or transmit respiratory fluids through the air.
Know the history of a tuberculosis patient
Now you would think that we are talking about Harshita after all. Actually, we are talking about Harshita because, on the one hand, there is an awareness and awareness campaign regarding tuberculosis being carried out across the country. On the other hand, the girl sits in her room and thinks that if she does not get treatment at the right time, a year of her life will be lost. She says because of this illness, her studies will be affected. An entire year will be lost. Tuition, tuition fees. Everything was ruined. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is caused by organisms resistant to two or more of the main anti-tuberculosis drugs. Are resistant to isoniazid and rifampicin. Medicines are purchased by the state program manager and then distributed to hospital pharmacies and dispensaries. Where patients can get them for free. A government dispensary five minutes from Harshita’s home only provides tuberculosis medicine once every five days if it has any in stock.
The system regarding tuberculosis in the country is basically the same.
His mother, Jyoti Singh, went to the clinic at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, but returned empty-handed. Jyoti says he said the medicines are over. I will tell my husband’s brother to buy medicine from a private pharmacy despite the high price. We must ensure that Harshita’s treatment continues. On Monday, she visited Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital. But they found nothing. After that, she went to the dispensary and was somehow able to buy pills that would last for five days. Jyoti said that during those five months, she received linezolid and cycloserine medicines from the clinic for only one month. A pack of six cycloserine tablets costs Rs 350, while Harshita has to take the medicine twice a day.
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