People must extend support to the Nikshay Mitr Abhiyan so that tuberculosis could be eliminated, said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya here on Sunday.
On a two-day visit to the city, he launched the interim report of the Indian catalogue of Mycobaterium TB mutation and their association with drug resistance at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, besides a booklet on nutritional support in Tamil for the patients.
He said there were still 50,000 people who had TB but only 5% of them had consented to support the scheme. As much as 35% had not accepted it yet. “Only with your support, like in COVID, can we overcome together this hurdle to the nation’s progress,” he said.
