Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
27-August, 2013 13:34 IST
TB Patients in the Country
The number of people registered under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) for treatment of TB annually during the past three years are as under:
2010: 1522147
2011: 1515872
2012: 1467119
The disease is transmitted through sputum positive TB cases. Treatment with quality assured anti TB drugs converts these patients to non-infective sputum negative cases.
629589 new sputum positive cases were registered under RNTCP during the year 2012.
The deaths due to TB among the registered patients for the last three years are as under.
2009: 66241
2010: 63781
2011: 63265
Outcome of Deaths are reported only after 12-15 months of treatment initiation, hence death in 2012 will only be available after Dec., 2013.
There are more than twenty companies in India which produce drugs for treatment of TB and more than five of these companies are in public sector.
No such instances regarding deaths of TB patients dying due to non-availability of drugs has been reported under RNTCP.
This information was given by the Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.
BN/BK/HB
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27-August, 2013 13:34 IST
TB Patients in the Country
The number of people registered under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) for treatment of TB annually during the past three years are as under:
2010: 1522147
2011: 1515872
2012: 1467119
The disease is transmitted through sputum positive TB cases. Treatment with quality assured anti TB drugs converts these patients to non-infective sputum negative cases.
629589 new sputum positive cases were registered under RNTCP during the year 2012.
The deaths due to TB among the registered patients for the last three years are as under.
2009: 66241
2010: 63781
2011: 63265
Outcome of Deaths are reported only after 12-15 months of treatment initiation, hence death in 2012 will only be available after Dec., 2013.
There are more than twenty companies in India which produce drugs for treatment of TB and more than five of these companies are in public sector.
No such instances regarding deaths of TB patients dying due to non-availability of drugs has been reported under RNTCP.
This information was given by the Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.
BN/BK/HB
(Release ID :98748)
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=98748