Pradhan Mantri TB Mukti Bharat abhiyaan 




TB in India

✅India has a little less than 20 percent of the world’s population, but has more than 25 percent of the total TB patients of the world.
✅Every day 1,200 Indians die of TB — 10 every three minutes.
✅According to Health Ministry data, only 63% of the patients infected with the airborne disease are currently under treatment.
✅Further, 1,47,000 patients are resistant to first- and second-line TB medicines.

▪️Elimination of TB

✅According to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, all nations have set the goal of eradicating TB by the year 2030. But the Government of India has set the target of eradicating TB by the year 2025.
✅At the current rate of progress, global targets to eliminate TB by 2030 will be missed by a 150 years.

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