On World TB Day, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s health officials officials will meet people who abandoned tuberculosis treatment midway and give them roses, and try to convince them to start the treatment once again. “To get tuberculosis patients who have left treatment halfway to restart it, we will contact them on World TB Day, which is on Saturday, and convince them to complete the treatment. According to data from the TB department of AMC, 867 cases last year left treatment midway. So a team of ward health officials will greet the defaulters with roses and counsel them. The government is trying to cure such patients, and they should try to complete their treatment,” said Dr Tejas Shah, TB project coordinator, AMC.

Source: dna March 24, 2018 01:10 UTC