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Campaign to Identify Multiple Diseases Launched

by Colleen Fleiss on Jan 15 2023 8:20 PM
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The Nikshay Diwas campaign was organized to identify tuberculosis cases but patients of filariasis, malaria, chikungunya, and leprosy will also be targeted.

Campaign to Identify Multiple Diseases Launched
A new campaign known as "Ekikrit Nikshay Diwas (END)" to identify multiple diseases has been launched by the Uttar Pradesh government.
"Just as TB patients were identified and their treatment was initiated, the identification and treatment for filariasis, malaria, chikungunya, kala azar and leprosy patients will also be done in the same manner," the order read.

"The idea behind such an initiative of focusing on more than one disease will ensure identification and treatment do not have a gap. If health staff visits one house and identifies more than one disease the outcome will be better," said Dr Abhishek Shukla, secretary-general, Association of International Doctors.

Campaign to End Multiple Diseases

At present, community health officers are being trained for the purpose and later, the entire process will be done via e-Kawach app, the order read.

The state has a target to eliminate TB by the year 2025, while leprosy, filariasis, malaria, chikungunya by 2030 and kala azar by the end of this year only.

On December 15 during the Nikshay Diwas, 2,80,187 patients were examined in the OPDs and samples of 23,096 were taken.

Among 700 TB was confirmed and some were advised further tests. In all, treatment of 695 has begun, according to data from the health department.

Source-IANS


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