TB report card is full of red grades

The report card is out and Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh hav...

The report card is out and Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh have clearly failed the test. Comprising 56 per cent of the population, these states have made no progress in the past year to extend the Directly Observed Treatment Short Course — DOTS — for curing Tuberculosis.

Currently, less than three out of 10 people infected with TB are being cured using high quality DOTS treatment services. In 2000, the government had pledged that seven out of 10 infected people would be treated by these services with at least six of them being cured by the year 2005.

As part of the campaign launched by http://www.MassiveEffort.org, a ‘‘tuberculosis control report card’’ of the states of India has been prepared.

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While Delhi, HP, Manipur and Rajasthan have cured more than 60 per cent cases using DOTS, Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Chattisgarh and Sikkim have just started providing treatment based on DOTS.

Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal have cured between 30 and 60 per cent infectious cases using DOTS.

People do not have access to DOTS services at Andaman and Nicobar Island, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, J-K, Lakshwadeep, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Pondicherry, Tripura and Uttaranchal.

According to the Fight TB campaign launched by the website, this year over four lakh Indians will die from TB as they do not receive quality treatment.

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