Assam Governor Prof Jagdish Mukhi adopts 10 TB patients for 6 months

 GUWAHATI: Governor of Assam Prof Jagdish Mukhi adopted ten tuberculosis (TB) patients of the State for six months as part of Nikshay Mitra, a community support initiative for TB patients under the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan. Mukhi made this announcement at a programme held at the Raj Bhavan on Monday.

It may be mentioned that Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan is a step towards garnering community support towards the TB patient-centric health system.

The Governor said, "Successful implementation of the Government schemes can be achieved only through the support of social and other organizations. The people of our country are very benevolent. They always assist the Government in transforming the Government programmes into mass movements. Therefore, the TB eradication thus launched will also be huge success and will help the country to get out of the scourge of TB".

"Every citizen of our country has a responsibility to make the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat campaign a mass movement. I thus make a plea to everybody to help this campaign a success", said the Governor during the programme.

The Governor also expressed his gratitude to the Prime Minister for taking up this programme. He also underscored the need for the citizens to register themselves as Nikshya Mitras. In order to eradicate TB from the State everyone should come forward and become Mitras for the TB patients by providing them with the required nutritional foods.

According to an official communiqué, the Governor also urged the health officials to go for door-to-door awareness, as also educate TB patients to practice a healthy way of life. He emphasized that the officials must reach out to the people and disseminate information about Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan. As part of the programme, the Governor handed over the prescribed food baskets to the health officials to be delivered them to the patients.

Commissioner and Secretary to the Governor, SS Meenakshi Sundaram, MD, NHM, Laxmipriya and officials from NHM and Raj Bhavan were present during the function.

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