Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare
At 95.40% Recovery Rate amongst highest in the world
Active cases slump to 3.13 lakh
Posted On: 18 DEC
2020 11:25AM by PIB
The
chasm between active cases and recovered cases is continuously widening.
Recoveries have surpassed the active cases by more than 92 lakh (92,06,996).The Recovery Rate has also
increased to 95.40%.
The
total Recovered Cases are more than 30
times the number of active cases.
New
daily recoveries outnumbering new cases have ensured a consistent decline in
the active cases along with increase in the total recoveries. In the last 24
hours, only 22,890 persons
were found to be infected with COVID in
New
recoveries have exceeded new cases continuously since the last 21 days.
Five
States account for almost 52% (51.76%)
of the total recovered cases in the country.
75.46% of the new recovered cases
are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.
Kerala
has reported the maximum number of single day recoveries with 4,970 newly
recovered cases. 4,358 people recovered in Maharashtrain the past 24 hours
followed by 2,747 inWest
76.43% of the new cases are
from 10 States and UTs.
Kerala
continues to report the highest daily new cases at 4,969. It is followed by
338 case fatalities have been
reported in the past 24 hours.
Ten
States/UTs account for 75.15% of new
deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (65).West Bengal and
Daily
deaths in
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Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare
Dr Harsh Vardhan addresses75th National Conference of
Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases (NATCON)
“We now have at least one molecular diagnostic facility available in each
district and are aiming to decentralize it down to the block level”
“More than Rs 886 crores have been disbursed to TB patients as Direct Benefit
Transfer for nutrition support under Nikshay Poshan Yojana”
Posted On: 18 DEC
2020 8:00PM by PIB
Dr.
Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare digitally addressed
the Platinum Jubilee of the National Conference of Tuberculosis and Chest
Diseases (NATCON) today.
At
the outset, Dr. Harsh Vardhan underlined the importance of multi stakeholder
coordination, prevention, and patient-centric quality care inmaking giant
strides towards a “TB Free India”. Congratulating all members of the Tuberculosis
Association of India for eight decades of selfless work since the
organization was established in 1939, he said that the determination of
Detailing
the significant advances under the leadership of Prime Minister Sh. Narendra
Modi, the minister said, “Our Government has launched programs that are
unprecedented in terms of their scale and reach. Declaration of TB as a
notifiable disease in the country has improved the identification of TB cases
and helped reduce the gap in identifying the missing cases in the country. One
million missing cases were reported in 2017, it has been reduced to 2.4 lakh in
2019. With nearly 7 lakh TB patients being notified by the private sector in
2019, they too have been making huge contributions towards our efforts to End
TB.”
In
this respect, he also stated“We have undertaken massive expansion of the
diagnostic capacity and currently more than 21,000 microscopic centers are
operational across the country. In the last two years we have increased Rapid
Molecular Testing devices (CBNAAT and Truenat) to more than 3000 devices with
at least one in every district of the country. We now have at least one
molecular diagnostic facility available in each district and are aiming to
decentralize it down to the block level.We have incorporated latest evidence
based and injection-free regimen for drug resistant as well as drug sensitive
TB. We have also introduced newer drugs with more than 15,000 patients having
received Bedaquiline and Delamanid containing regimen treatment from more than
700 DRTB centers spread across various parts of the country. Moreover, the
programme is heavily investing in the capacity building of frontline workers to
deliver quality care and for effective programme outcomes”. He also added that
the use of Artificial Intelligence was explored in identifying and furthering
care of TB patients.
Thereafter,
he also explained the source of the success of the movement in targeting not
only the disease but all co-morbidities and social determinants associated with
the disease; “We are providing financial support to all TB patients under
Nikshaya Poshan Yojana, a significant step to reduce out of pocket expenses for
the patients and increase treatment adherence. In addition, we are providing
free drugs and diagnostics to the TB patients availing treatment in the private
sector. Nutritional support is extended to all TB patients for the entire
duration of their treatment. Till date, more than Rs 886 crore has been
disbursed to TB patients as Direct Benefit Transfer, for nutritional support.”
Speaking
on the prevention of TB, he said that focus is being directed to Airborne
Infection Control in Hospital wards and Out-patient waiting areas. The TB
Program already has provisions of chemoprophylaxis against TB disease in
pediatric contacts of TB patients and shall soon be expanding TB preventive
treatment for the adult contacts of TB patients.
Detailing
the hardships faced in preserving the gains in TB from the COVID pandemic, Dr.
Harsh Vardhan said, “Despite the challenges posed by COVID-19, TB programme has
bounced back. We have introduced several mitigative measures including
bi-directional screening for TB-COVID and convergence in case finding efforts
for TB-COVID in the country”.
Dr.
Harsh Vardhan noted that there is an 18 per cent and 12 per cent increase in TB
case finding under National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) in 2018
and 2019 respectively. He said, “The government has immensely invested in TB
research. The Indian Council of Medical Research and India Tuberculosis
Research Consortium are jointly conducting next-generation research on diagnostics,
therapeutics, vaccines, and other such critical areas, he added. He highlighted
that the government is conducting the world’s largest National TB Prevalence
Survey with a massive sample size of 500 thousand.”
Dr.
Harsh Vardhan ended his address by congratulating the organisers for bringing
various medical professionals and experts in the field of Tuberculosis, Chest
Diseases under one umbrella for scientific deliberations and share knowledge
and advancements with the goal towards Eliminating TB from
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