On the World Tuberculosis Day, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has given a call to make the world TB-free.…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (Photo: Twitter)
On the World Tuberculosis Day, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has given a call to make the world TB-free.
Banerjee in a tweet said, “Today is World Tuberculosis Day. Let us work together to make this world TB-free”.
Today is World Tuberculosis Day. Let us work together to make this world TB-free
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— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) March 24, 2018
The World TB Day is observed to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of tuberculosis and to step up efforts to end the global epidemic.
The date marks the day in 1882 when Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB, which opened the way towards diagnosing and curing this disease.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind on World Tuberculosis Day on Saturday urged all stakeholders to help eliminate the disease by 2025.
“On World Tuberculosis Day, I call upon all stakeholders to come together to fight tuberculosis. TB continues to be one of the biggest public health challenges in our country. The time has come for all of us to join hands to eliminate TB from India by 2025,” the President tweeted.
“In the spirit of this year’s World TB Day theme of ‘Wanted: Leaders for a TB-free world’, I urge citizens and organisations to take the lead in the movement to end TB. A TB-free world is a wonderful service to humanity,” PM Modi tweeted.
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