A motorcycle rally was taken out from the District TB Centre on Monday here on the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day on Sunday. The rally which was flagged off by State Tuberculosis Officer Dr TK Agarwal passed through Kalibari, Mahila Thana Chowk, Fire Brigade Chowk, Akashwani Chowk, Netaji Chowk before concluding at Katora Talab ground in the city.
The rally was participated by officers, employees, supervisors of the Health Deparment besides nurses and other medical staff. Similarly in another programme, a friendly cricket match was organised between Nodal medical officers of various branches of the Health Department and the NGOs at the Katora Talab Ground in which the NGOs team won the match.
Speaking on the occasion, State Tuberculosis Officer Dr Agarwal said that the TB patients are being offered free treatment using DIET technique and those suffering from ‘Multi Drug Resistance” (MDR) TB are being treated using the DIETS Plus technique.
Every patient coughing for more than two weeks is considered a suspected case of TB. Moreover, the other symptoms such as fever rising during evening, loss of appetite, loss of weight, pain in the chest, blood in the cough are all symptoms of suspected TB, he said.
There are a total of 309 ‘Microscopic Centres’ established in the entire State for treating suspected TB cases.This apart, there are a total of 66 treatment units and 27 district TB control centres in the State, Dr Agarwal added.