Govt launches campaign for door-to-door screening of TB
To detect cases of latent infection, the Union Health Ministry has launched a door-to-door screening campaign for Tuberculosis. The campaign aims to find patients before they develop full-blown TB and put them on preventive medicine. Launched in five states – Kerala, Bihar, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim – the campaign will be scaled up to other states from July 2017.