LG A & N Islands Registers as Nikshay Mitra; LG Calls Upon Officers, Islanders, Govt. Division, NGOs, Elected Representatives & Private Organisations to Be part of Struggle In opposition to TB

Tarun Karthick

Port Blair, 07 March 2023

Admiral D Ok Joshi, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, NM, VSM (Retd.), Hon’ble Lt. Governor, A&N Islands and Vice Chairman, Islands Development Agency has registered as Nikshay Mitra beneath the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan and adopted two TB sufferers from the Islands. 

In a easy perform held at Raj Niwas as we speak, Officers of LG Secretariat and Joint Secretary, NTEP, DHS distributed dietary kits and greens grown at Raj Niwas to the adopted TB Patients.

Government of India has launched the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, with an intention to activate involvement of the society within the struggle in opposition to Tuberculosis and to scale back the stigma related to the illness. Provision of extra help to TB sufferers shall additionally end result within the discount of out of- pocket expenditure for the household of the TB sufferers. Ultimately, the improved vitamin for TB sufferers shall lead to higher therapy outcomes.

The Hon’ble Lt. Governor has additionally appealed to Officers of the A&N Administration and members of civil society/ Islanders to register themselves as ‘Nikshay Mitras’ and prolong help to TB Patients. He additionally referred to as upon the Government Departments, NGOs, Private Organisations and Elected Representatives to affix the struggle in opposition to TB by offering dietary help to TB Patients. Hon’ble Lt Governor has additional said that the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s imaginative and prescient of TB Mukt Bharat by 2025 can solely be achieved by the lively involvement of all sections of the society.