New Delhi: As India expands its TB eradication campaign, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is training scientists from seven South East Asian Region (SEAR) countries – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Timor Leste, Indonesia, Maldives and Sri Lanka. Have given. So that tuberculosis can be prevented from spreading from there.
Support to these countries includes training their scientists in identifying research gaps, treatments, diagnostics and infrastructure supplies. While these countries are trying to eliminate TB, the problem is different.
Dr C. Padmapriyadarshini, Director, ICMR’s National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT) said, “It was more about learning how to identify and address any gaps in the TB elimination programme, operational research How to do and how can we address. To reach the TB elimination goal in these participating countries. So, it was research and capacity building training in field settings in these countries.”
“Some of these countries have a high TB burden, while some have a low TB burden, but the challenges are similar to India. For example, Indonesia has a very high TB burden and mortality. Maldives has a low TB burden but migration and treatment completion. Participants discussed how cross-country collaborative research could be done to address these. Training and activity will continue over the next few years to achieve the common goal of eliminating TB ” Dr. Padmapriyadarshini said.
Queries sent to the High Commissions of these countries remained unanswered.
There are about 13.5 lakh TB patients in India, out of which 12,28,116 are adults and 76,575 are children below 14 years of age.
Around 67,025 persons have registered themselves as Nikshay Mitras who adopt and take care of TB patients.
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