Source: The Sangai Express
Moreh, December 09:
Under the joint initiative of the Chandel District TB Control Society and Organisation for Salvation of Man (OSOM) one day awareness programme on tuberculosis was held at Moreh W/N 7 office of OSOM today.
speaking on solemn occasion as the chief guest, State TB Officer Dr AK Kamba Singh said since 2003 treatment procedures through DOT had been able to reduce number of one infection every second and 1 casualty recorded each minute due to TB infection to two infections every three seconds and two casualties in every three minutes.
He also put TB cure rate in Manipur to 86 percent as well as 71 percent success in detection of the disease thereby qualifying the State among the country's TB Programme Target zone from the third quarter of the current year.
Chief functionary of OSOM K Pran Singh presented a detailed account of TB and its curative steps as resource person of the awareness programme which was also attended by Superintendent of Moreh Hospital Dr Y Mani and representatives of numerous Moreh-based NGOs.