On World Tuberculosis Day today, Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Health Minister reaffirms the government’s commitment to making India TB free by 2025. Mandaviya said that we will achieve our goal by ensuring access to better healthcare and advanced treatment.
Further, he added, Tuberculosis, an infectious disease that infects the lungs is preventable and treatable. Together we can and we will eliminate this potentially serious infectious disease and work towards a healthy and disease-free.
World Health Organization has termed TB as the ‘second top infectious killer in the world’. It has been said that ending the TB epidemic by 2030 is among the health targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As per WHO, 4,100 patients suffering from tuberculosis die every day and around 28,000 people fall ill with this disease which is preventable.
24 March is commemorated as World Tuberculosis Day each year to raise public awareness about the overwhelming consequences of this infectious disease and to initiate steps to end the global tuberculosis epidemic.
