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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | No. of India?s TB patients may be double the estimate: Lancet -Malathy Iyer

No. of India?s TB patients may be double the estimate: Lancet -Malathy Iyer

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published Published on Aug 25, 2016   modified Modified on Aug 25, 2016
-The Times of India

MUMBAI: India's tuberculosis nightmare could be much worse than feared. A new study analysing the sale of anti-TB medicines across India has estimated that there could be two times more drug-sensitive TB patients than currently assumed.

While it was assumed that India's annual burden of TB cases stands at roughly 2.2 million a year, the study to be published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal on Thursday pegs this number at over 3.8 million in 2014. This excludes drug-resistant TB cases. The study, jointly done by the Indian government, the Imperial College of London and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, confirmed what has long been suspected: more Indian TB patients seek treatment in the private sector than the public sector.

Dr Sunil Khaparde, who heads the Central TB Division and is an author of the Lancet study, said, "We realised the number of patients coming to the private sector were underestimated, but the new study looked at medicine sales and found that this number alone could be as high as 2.2 million as against the 8 lakh we had previously estimated."

It translates into a three times jump in the number of cases in the private sector. The study's main author Dr Nimalan Arinaminpathy, who is from the School of Public Health at Imperial College, said, "TB is a major global health issue, and India bears a large proportion of the world's TB burden." In fact, it is estimated that India accounts for a fourth of all TB cases.

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The Times of India, 25 August, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/No-of-Indias-TB-patients-may-be-double-the-estimate-Lancet/articleshow/53852055.cms?utm_source=toimobile&utm_medium=Tw


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