A month after the Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report-2016 revealed that the spread of the curable TB is larger than previously projected in India, the Union Health Ministry on Thursday said a fortnight-long intensive TB detection campaign will be launched from January 1 next year to trace tuberculosis cases on the lines of its polio drive.
With the report serving as a wake-up call, Sunil Khaparde, Deputy Director General (TB) of the Health Ministry, said, "We will be going on a campaign mode from January 1 to January 15, 2017 to do active case finding (of TB). We will be identifying high risk areas and seek the help of various stakeholders. Initially, this will be only for 15 days but after 6-7 months, we can have it on a larger scale."