Varanasi: TB Champions are encouraging patients of tuberculosis in the district by sharing their experiences. Chief medical officer Dr Sandeep Chaudhary said under Prime Minister's TB-Free India campaign, health department was working in collaboration with Impact India Project and World Health Partners, to raise awareness among community members through TB Champions.
These volunteers are trained to assist in treatment and providing support of patients and also to bring in them a behavioural change. TB is treatable, and if treated in a timely manner with regular medication, patients can recover easily.
District TB officer Dr Piyush Rai said that to be a TB Champion, one must undergo standard training. A TB Champion is usually a person who suffered from TB and recovered. The trained person serves to contribute to TB eradication and to serve as role model and assisting patients and their families. Under this initiative, champions are being trained as part of the TB-Free India campaign.
So far, 34 TB champions at primary health centre in Pindra, 24 in Baragaon and 24 in Chiraigaon have been trained. They work in their respective villages' Ayushman Arogya Temples, collaborating with community health officers to conduct community meetings, school meetings, patient-provider meetings and engage with patients who discontinued their medication to encourage them to resume treatment by sharing the story of their fight against the disease.
Additionally, patients who recovered taking medication are being selected in all Ayushman Arogya Temples in the district and being inspired to work after receiving a one-day training.
Varanasi: TB Champions are encouraging patients of tuberculosis in the district by sharing their experiences. Chief medical officer Dr Sandeep Chaudhary said under Prime Minister's TB-Free India campaign, health department was working in collaboration with Impact India Project and World Health Partners, to raise awareness among community members through TB Champions.
These volunteers are trained to assist in treatment and providing support of patients and also to bring in them a behavioural change. TB is treatable, and if treated in a timely manner with regular medication, patients can recover easily.
District TB officer Dr Piyush Rai said that to be a TB Champion, one must undergo standard training. A TB Champion is usually a person who suffered from TB and recovered. The trained person serves to contribute to TB eradication and to serve as role model and assisting patients and their families. Under this initiative, champions are being trained as part of the TB-Free India campaign.
So far, 34 TB champions at primary health centre in Pindra, 24 in Baragaon and 24 in Chiraigaon have been trained. They work in their respective villages' Ayushman Arogya Temples, collaborating with community health officers to conduct community meetings, school meetings, patient-provider meetings and engage with patients who discontinued their medication to encourage them to resume treatment by sharing the story of their fight against the disease.
Additionally, patients who recovered taking medication are being selected in all Ayushman Arogya Temples in the district and being inspired to work after receiving a one-day training.