Ujjain: A meeting was held with private medical practitioners on Sunday to achieve tuberculosis eradication from India by 2025. The meeting was held at Simhastha Mela office meeting hall. Centre’s WHO consultant Dr YK Jani gave detailed information about the disease through power point presentation and said that it was not a serious disease. Awareness and regular treatment was the key to eradicate it.
He said that everyone will be roped in to achieve the target of TB free India. Speedy identification of suspected TB patients, their notification and treatment on time, follow-up and routine monitoring of medicines being given to the patient will be undertaken under the strategy.
He said that a patient suffering from TB will be provided Rs 500 every month by the state government for nutritious food. The government will also provide Rs 500 as an incentive to private doctors engaged in the treatment, even after getting notifiied in the government hospital.
The meeting was chaired by MP Pharmacy Council chairman Om Jain. On this occasion civil surgeon Dr Raju Nidariya, senior physicians Dr CM Pauranik, Dr NK Trivedi, Dr Vimal Garg, Dr PM Kumawat, Dr Vijay Garg, Dr HP Sonania, Dr Katyayan Mishra, Dr Rajendra Bansal and government and non-medical practitioners were present. Chief medical and health officer Dr VK Gupta and district TB officer Dr Sunita Parmar said that private practitioners should ensure the notification of suspected TB patient in prescribed form at district TB centre.