A three day training cum workshop of district Tuberculosis (TB) officers, supervisors and district coordinators of Uttarakhand started at State health and family welfare directorate on Monday. On second day of workshop on Tuesday, the mission Director National Health Mission (NHM), Chandresh Kumar said that Uttarakhand has taken up a target to make the State free from TB by the year 2025. He asked the participants to expedite work on TB eradication and get all their doubts cleared from the experts during the workshop.
The Government of India designated experts of World Health Organization (WHO) Dr S Bhatnagar and Dr Umesh Tripathi gave a detailed presentation on the new technical and operational guidelines on TB eradication and important changes in the guidelines during the day
They also shared some very important information on TB eradication programme of state with the participants.
The state project officer TB eradication programme ,NHM Dr V S Tolia said that new technical and operational guidelines would be very effective in the direction of eradication of TB in the state.
The Director National Programme Dr R S Aswal, Director Health Dr l M Upreti, District TB control Officer Dr Vagesh Kala and IEC officer Anil Sati were also present on the occasion.