New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said eradicating Tuberculosis by 2025, five years ahead of the global deadline of 2030. PM Modi was speaking at the One World TB Summit at Rudrakash Convention Centre in Varanasi initiatives, including the TBMukt Panchayat, the official panIndia rollout of a shorter TB Preventive Treatment (TPT), a family-centric care model for TB and the release of India’s Annual TB Report 2023.
PM Modi also laid the foundation stone of the National Centre for Disease Control and High Containment Laboratory and inaugurated the site for
Metropolitan Public Health Surveillance Unit in Varanasi.
The prime minister also awarded select states, union territories and districts for their progress towards eradicating TB. The prime minister highlighted that as a country, the reflection of India’s ideology can be seen in the spirit of Vasudev Kutumbakam (the whole world is one family). He noted that as the G20 President, India chose the theme of “One Family, One World, One Future” based on such beliefs. “The theme of G20 is a resolution for the shared future of the entire world,” PM Modi said.
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