Vice-President of India M. Venakaiah Naidu on Monday urged Parliamentarians to play important role in addressing public health challenges. He said the MPs must becatalysts in the mass awareness campaign in the fight against this disease by playing a proactive role in their constituencies. Naidu was speaking on a sensitization programme for MPs on TB.
Speaking on the occasion, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said that time has come for collective action to eradicate Tuberculosis from India by 2025 i.e. five years before the Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN.
Public awareness is the most effective intervention to fight diseases like TB in a developing country like India, said Birla. Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of State B Pawar also spoke.