The global fight against tuberculosis (TB), badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, is beginning to recover but remains a long way off target, according to a World Health Organization report. During the first two years of the pandemic, there were around 4 million “missing” TB patients per year, meaning people who developed TB but who were not diagnosed or treated. TB, an infectious disease which usually attacks the lungs, is both preventable and curable.
Noida: Over 30 Tuberculosis (TB) patients were adopted under the Nikshay Mitra initiative, which provides patients with monthly nutrition kits, on Tue.
State administration may reach out to Karnataka and Goa, which have lower incidence of deadly disease, to tide over shortage of drug-resistant TB medicines