CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur, In order to realize the objective of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make India TB free by 2025 in public interest, a district level workshop was organized in Janmanch Auditorium under the chairmanship of District Magistrate Manish Bansal in compliance with the instructions of the government. In the workshop, the village heads, CHO, ANM, teachers, representatives of the district jail under the Home Department of the district were informed about what work is to be done in the 100-day intensive TB campaign and how to do daily reporting. District Magistrate Manish Bansal said that people above 60 years of age, malnourished people, old TB patients, people living with TB patients, diabetes, HIV infected people, drug addicts etc. should be identified and screened on time and treated. All the concerned departments should work on a war footing to make the campaign successful by doing better mutual coordination. Tests and X-rays of symptomatic or high-risk people should be done at maximum capacity. Chief Development Officer Sumit Rajesh Mahajan and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Praveen Kumar appealed to everyone to contribute to this campaign. District Tuberculosis Officer Dr. Sarvesh Kumar Singh explained through the workshop that how 10 percent of the total population of the district will be identified and line listed by asking about the symptoms of TB through Asha, Sangini, Anganwadi worker, ANM and they will also be sent to the CHO in the nearest Arogya Mandir from where the sputum samples of the suspected patients will be sent to the nearest CHC and PHC for examination through sputum transporter and for X-ray also the patients will be sent to the nearest government health centers equipped with the relevant X-ray facility, if TB is found the TB department will start treatment. Complete daily reporting will be done through the Nikshay portal. On this occasion, ACMO Dr. Pooja Sharma, Dr. Dharamvir, Dr. Kapil Dev, Dr. Kunal, Dr. Sushil Gupta, Senior Tuberculosis Lab Supervisor MP Singh Chawla, Pamish from ITC, Param Batra from HTC, Mohammad Alam from Civil Defense along with senior officers of the concerned departments and village head were present.