Shillong: Meghalaya Health and Family Welfare Minister AL Hek on Wednesday launched the ‘Meghalaya State Strategic Plan to eliminate Tuberculosis by 2025’.
“The vision for a tuberculosis-free state determines to decrease the TB burden in terms of incidence rate by 44 per lakh, mortality rate by 3/lakh and reducing catastrophic cost due to tuberculosis by 2025,” he said.
The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) was launched in the state on October 2, 2003.
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