Meghalaya Launches Strategic Plan To Eliminate Tuberculosis By 2025

"The vision for a tuberculosis-free state determines to decrease the TB burden in terms of incidence rate by 44 per lakh, mortality rate by 3/lakh and reducing catastrophic cost due to tuberculosis by 2025," Meghalaya Health and Family Welfare Minister AL Hek said.

Meghalaya Health and Family Welfare Minister AL Hek on Wednesday launched the "Meghalaya State Strategic Plan to eliminate Tuberculosis by 2025". "The vision for a tuberculosis-free state determines to decrease the TB burden in terms of incidence rate by 44 per lakh, mortality rate by 3/lakh and reducing catastrophic cost due to tuberculosis by 2025," he said. The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) was launched in the state on October 2, 2003. In the past decade, the programme has screened more than 4,74,767 presumptive TB cases, put on treatment about 76,485 and successfully treated about 63,789 patients. The success rate of RNTCP is 83 per cent.