Indore (Madhya Pradesh): The district would be made tuberculosis-free by enlisting the support of all sections of society, informed water resources minister Tulsiram Silawat and MP Shankar Lalwani on Thursday, in a meeting of the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (Disha).
A campaign was also being run to make the district cataract-free and towards this end, free operations of cataract victims were being done, it was disclosed.
In the meeting, the works and activities going on in the district under the National Health Mission were reviewed, as well as the progress of the works going on under the National Agricultural Development Scheme and Swamitva Yojana.
Silawat said that a comprehensive campaign should be run with the cooperation of all to make Indore district free from TB. MP Lalwani said that there was a need to make this campaign a mass movement. The meeting was told that there were about 10,000 TB patients in the district. They were being treated free of cost under the government scheme.
There was also a provision to provide free food to needy TB patients with public cooperation under the Nikshay Mitra Yojana. Instructions were given to expand this scheme. The progress of the Ayushman Card Scheme was also reviewed and it was disclosed that more than 20,000 Ayushman cards had been made in the district for people above 70 years of age.
