The Hindu 24.03.2017
Civil society movement for TB-free city
To ensure early diagnosis and community support
For a TB-free Kochi, the corporation is launching a civil society
movement that is expected to create awareness on tuberculosis, its
diagnosis and treatment.
Hibi Eden, MLA, will inaugurate the
programme at Town Hall at 11 a.m. on Friday. A.B. Sabu, Welfare Standing
Committee chairman, will preside. It will be implemented with the
technical support of the Department of Community Medicine, Amrita
Institute of Medical Sciences.
The
aim of the movement is early diagnosis and community support for
treatment. Kudumbasree workers will take part in the programme. “Their
involvement will help find cases early as it has been found that there
is an average delay of three months in detection,” said Rakesh P.S.,
epidemiologist, public health consultant, Amrita Institute of Medical
Sciences.
Community support for treatment would help boost patients’ confidence, he added.
