The Rajasthan government is gearing up to make the state Tuberculosis free before 2025. According to the state Health Minister Raghu Sharma, "health camps will be organised in the state on a large scale to ramp up the identification of TB patients."
The State Health Minister said, "in November month special health camps will be organised in Panchayat headquarters of the state. Along with other tests the facility for TB tests will be provided at these health camps. It will be helpful in identifying the TB patients so that they can get timely treatment."
Further he added, "the active case finding campaign for identifying the TB patients in the state is going on since 2017. The minister informed that 96 thousand 823 TB cases, till now in 2021 from the state, have been reported on the Nikshay Portal. However, in 2020 one lakh thirty seven thousand cases were identified. Under the Nikshay Poshan Yojana the state government in 2020 had paid 25.05 crore to 96,394 TB patients and in 2021 around 48 thousand patients have been paid 8 crore 20 lakhs."
Health Minister Sharma has requested to the Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya to provide more machines for the identification of TB patients.