Tuberculosis has to be wiped out of world by 2030 as declared by WHO but our PM has announced this time in India by 2025 . For this it is essential that we diagnose TB immediately within hours and start therapy for required months interrupted so that Multidrug or simple drug resistant TB does not develop. Across Mumbai, multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) saw a rise from 3,608 in 2015 to 4,891 in 2017.
Not government has installed C-NAT machine to diagnose TB and detect rifampicin resistance in few district and state capital centres but this is costly machine so government is directing Haffkine Institute of Research and Testing to formulate a new study to develop such a cost effective test so that it can be taken to every primary and sub health centre. Following the success of a small laboratory trial, the central government is funding a tuberculosis diagnosis programme that will use a…
