TB will lose and India will win: Modi

Prime Minister says the government has taken a pledge to eliminate TB from the country by 2025

Varanasi (ANI): PM

Narendra Modi on Friday said Tuberculosis (TB) will lose and India and the world will win, adding that while the global target to end TB is 2030, India is working on eliminating it five years earlier, by 2025.

Inaugurating the One World TB Summit 2023 in Varanasi on Friday, Modi said that the India of today is known for achieving its goals and the govt has taken a pledge to eliminate TB from the country.PM Modi also launched TB Preventive Treatment (TPT), TB Free Panchayat Initiative, Family Centered Care Model for TB and India’s Annual TB Report 2023 during the event.

Mentioning India’s global role in the fight against TB, he said efforts made in this direction since 2014 should be known to the whole world today because it is a new model in the global fight against TB.

“We had called upon the people of the country to make Nikshay Mitras join the TB-free India campaign. After this campaign, about 10 lakh TB patients were adopted by the common citizens of the country.

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“FULFILLING RESOLUTION OF GLOBAL GOOD WITH ONE WORLD TB SUMMIT”

Varanasi: On ‘World TB Day’ PM Narendra Modi put forward India’s vision of ‘One Earth, One Health’ and praised the nation for fulfilling another resolution of Global Good by organizing ‘One World TB Summit’ at Rudrakash Convention Centre in Varanasi on Friday. “It is a matter of happiness that this summit is happening in Kashi. Some time ago, India also took the initiative to take forward the vision of ‘One Earth, One Health’ and now through ‘One World TB Summit’ India is fulfilling another resolution of Global Good”, said PM as he launched various initiatives to enhance countries’ fight against TB.

“INDIA WORKING TO END TB 5 YRS AHEAD OF GLOBAL TARGET”

Pm Modi Launches Initiatives To Eliminate Tb

Children aged 10-12 years are also taking forward the fight against TB by becoming Nikshay Mitra. Many children have broken their piggy banks and adopted TB patients. This financial support of Nikshay Mitras for TB patients has reached above Rs 1000 crore,” he said. PM Modi also said a total of 75 lakh TB patients have benefitted from the Direct Bank Transfer (DBT) of Rs 2000 crore sent to their accounts since the launch of the scheme by the Central government in 2018.

Varanasi: Over the last nine years, public participation through initiatives like ‘Ni-kshay Mitra’ has played a very important role in the fight against tuberculosis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. The Prime Minister said this after launching TB-Mukt Panchayat initiative, the official pan-India rollout of a shorter preventive treatment and family-centric care model for TB and release of India’s Annual TB Report 2023.

Varanasi: India’s ideology of “Vasudev Kutumbkam” is giving the modern world an integrated vision and solutions, PM Narendra Modi said on Friday as he launched a series of initiatives to eliminate tuberculosis. Addressing the ‘One World TB Summit’ on World TB Day, he said the country is working to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025 as against the global target of 2030. “India’s image reflects in its ideology of ‘Vasudev Kutumbkam’ (whole world one family).

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