Food supplements distributed to TB patients
Source: Chronicle News Service
Senapati, April 28 2023:
National TB Elimination Programme, District TB Centre under District Health Society, Senapati distributed nutritional food supplements to 26 registered patients of TB under Mao assembly constituency.
The food supplements included one kg of pulses, one litre of mustard oil, one kg of milk powder and one plate of egg.
Distribution of TB Nutritional Food basket was initiated by Nikshay Mitra under Pradhan Mantra TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan.
Talking to media persons, District TB officer Dr Muanching informed that the nutritional supplements were given to all registered TB patients under Mao assembly constituency.
Earlier, Karong and Tadubi MLAs carried out the same for all TB patients under their constituencies.
The District TB Officer also expressed gratitude to all local MLAs for their generosity and contribution from their end in helping the TB patients.
Mention may be made here that National TB Elimination Programme, Senapati is working tirelessly to ensure a TB Free Senapati by identifying volunteers from each village in the district to perform Active Case Finding of suspected TB patients in their own areas.
The volunteers would collect and refer all symptomatic patients for testing and treatment as part of a project initiated recently in the district under the National TB Elimination Programme to eliminate TB in the district by 2025 .