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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | TB nutrition aid falls short -Taran Deol

TB nutrition aid falls short -Taran Deol

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published Published on Aug 24, 2022   modified Modified on Aug 26, 2022

-Down to Earth

Hurdles in availing financial support under Nikshay Poshan Yojana will exacerbate India’s tuberculosis crisis

Only two-thirds of people living with tuberculosis benefitted from the Union government’s sole nutrition support scheme last year, highlighting bottlenecks in the fight against a major public health concern.

The Nikshay Poshan Yojana entitles every tuberculosis (TB) patient, seeking treatment in either the public or private sector, to a direct benefit transfer (DBT) of Rs 500 per month for nutritional needs. It was launched in April 2018 and until February 2022, around Rs 1,488 crore has been paid to 5.73 million notified beneficiaries.

However, data from the latest India TB Report 2022, released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in March, shows that only 62.1 per cent of 2.1 million notified cases across the country received at least one payment in 2021.

In Delhi, which has the highest burden of all forms of TB at 747 cases per 100,000 people, only 30.2 per cent of patients have got at least one DBT.

Other poor performers are Punjab (31.8 per cent), Jharkhand (40.1 per cent), Maharashtra (46.6 per cent), Bihar (45.8 per cent), Rajasthan (55.9 per cent) and Uttar Pradesh (58.7 per cent). In the North East, Manipur (4.2 per cent) and Meghalaya (23.7 per cent) fared the worst.

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Down to Earth, 24 August, 2022, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/health/tb-nutrition-aid-falls-short-84502?fbclid=IwAR2XAuzwerta1tvb9XzmLEWX-v1lFIqPsMMxGGl-pDHxPXYy6Y_hLJD-Rgg


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