The government plans to give Rs 500 a month to Tuberculosis (TB) patients to help them buy nutritious food and compensate them for travel expenses until they are cured of the disease, a health ministry official has said.<\/p>\n
Under the proposal, the money would be given to patients, around 25 lakh, irrespective of their income level.<\/p>\n
The Expenditure Finance Committee has approved the proposal and sent it to the Mission Steering Group, the official said.<\/p>\n
The initiative is part of the National Strategic Plan for TB Elimination, with the health ministry aiming to eliminate TB by 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cAround 25 lakh patients suffering from tuberculosis will soon be given Rs 500 per month, irrespective of their income level, as social support. A mechanism will be put in place to give the incentives to the patients on the basis of their Aadhaar number and medical documents,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n
According to the World Health Organisation, an estimated 2.8 million cases of TB occur in India every year, out of which 1.7 million cases are reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe health ministry aims to reduce incidences of TB by 90% by 2025 and reduce mortality due to the disease by 95 per cent by 2030 under the Revised National TB Control Programme,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n
The ministry recently rolled out the daily drug regimen to combat the disease across the country.<\/p>\n
Under the new treatment policy, patients are given fixed drug combinations three or four drugs in a single pill daily, instead of thrice a week (intermittent drug regimen).<\/p>\n
Dosage is determined according to the patient\u2019s body weight. Previously, it was same for all adults, an official said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, children suffering from tuberculosis won\u2019t have to take the bitter tablets anymore as they will be replaced with easily-dissolvable and flavoured drugs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Since 1997, under the RNTCP, patients were being administered drugs thrice a week. The daily treatment regimen is likely to be more effective with lesser relapses and it is expected to reduce drug-resistance with greater compliance.<\/p>\n
The WHO revised its TB management guidelines in 2010, recommending that the daily drug regimen be adopted under the RNTCP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The government plans to give Rs 500 a month to Tuberculosis (TB) patients to help them buy nutritious food and compensate them for travel expenses until they are cured of the disease, a health ministry official has said. Under the proposal, the money would be given to patients, around 25 lakh, irrespective of their income […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18604,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602\/revisions\/18604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}