Kathmandu, Aug 5: A campaign has been put in place to eradicate tuberculosis from Nepal by 2050. Minister for Health and Population Bhawani Prasad Khapung inaugurated a workshop organized by the National Tuberculosis Control Centre here today to review and expand the Tuberculosis-Free Nepal campaign.
Minister Khapung called for
cooperation from NGOs, INGOs and international stakeholders to eradicate
tuberculosis from Nepal within the stipulated time.
The campaign is being launched at
25 local levels at present and would be expanded to all 753 local levels within
four years, the Minister said.
Similarly, Shyam Sundar Yadav,
secretary at the Ministry of Health and Population, viewed that if the local level
would track down tuberculosis patients at every home and relay information to
the Centre, the patients would avail of medical intervention on time.
Janakpur Sub-Metropolitan City
Mayor Manoj Kumar Shah opined that many public would be benefitted if the
campaign was taken forward in coordination and collaboration with the people's
representatives.
Last year around 17,000 people died
of tuberculosis in Nepal on the part of concerned authorities' managerial
weakness, shared tuberculosis experts Dr Dirgha Singh Bom, Dr Rajendra Panta
and Dr Maheshwor Shrestha. They pressed for an effective strategy to eliminate
tuberculosis from the country.
Centre's executive director Sanjay
Thakur shed light on the campaign in the workshop attended by representatives
from various provinces of the country. (RSS)