Dimapur, March 26 (EMN): Along with the rest of the world, Dimapur district health workers and commercial pharmacists observed World TB Day on March 24 at Hotel Saramati under the theme “Wanted leaders for a TB free world.” The organisers updated about the event on Monday.
On the occasion, DTO Dimapur Dr. Talituba Ozukum highlighted the scenario of TB cases in the district. He oriented the participants on Scheduled H1 Medicines as directed by the Government of India.
With the recent issue of a gazetted notification by the Union Ministry in regard to penalization of unreported TB patients by health workers including pharmacists, Dr. OZukum urged the commercial pharmacists to maintain a separate register for H1 drugs.
Format for record register maintenance was also distributed.
Reports of Scheduled H1 medicines will be collected from all pharmacies regularly, he informed.
Informing that the Government of India aims to eradicate TB from the country by 2025, Dr. Ozukum requested health workers and pharmacists to take the lead in this endeavour.
The chief medical officer of Dimapur, Dr. K Vikato Kinimi, who was the chief guest for the event, said ‘we are fortunate to be in a generation where TB is curable and the Government of India is providing free diagnosis and free treatment to patients’.
CMO urged the participants to assist the health department in giving systematic treatment to reduce the chances of resistance to TB medicine. He also requested the health workers and private pharmacists to take responsibility and continue educating the patients to complete the full course of TB medicine and help eradicate TB from our country.
The programme was attended by program officers, staff under CMO and DTO offices, commercial pharmacists and representatives from Prodigal Home and Chavara Home.
