Bihar: World TB Day at Kamla Nehru Nagar Slum

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Bihar: PAHAL Observed World TB Day at Kamla Nehru Nagar Slum

 

Local Voluntary organization working for the health awareness of the masses,

Public Awareness for Healthful Approach for Living (PAHAL), organised TB

Awareness Nukkad Natak at the densely populated Kamla Nehru Nagar Slum today.

Addressing the gathering, Medical Director of PAHAL, Dr Diwakar Tejaswi informed

that in India and Bihar about 40% of population are having the TB infection and

about 2-3% are having active TB disease.

More than 70% of AIDS patients in Bihar have TB co infection at one point of

time or other. Dr Tejaswi expressed his concern over the rising number of Multi

Drug Resistance (MDR) TB and Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) TB which are life

threatening.

He informed the slum dwellers that if anyone is having more than 2 weeks of

cough, evening rise of temperature, loss of weight, loss of appetite, cough with

chest pain and hemoptysis he or she should go to nearest health center and get

his free sputum test done at Govt. Hospital. Free Anti TB Medication is also

available at government hospitals under DOTS programme in Bihar.

Those who were present on the occasion included Dr Kiran Sharan, President of

PAHAL, Members of Grameen Vikas Samiti,  members of NIDAN and Mr Rohit Kumar of

Kala Jagran. 

Santosh

GVS

SK Srivastava

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