Jammu, Feb 16: Mission Director, National Health Mission (NHM), J&K, Nazim Zai Khan on Friday directed the health department to work diligently to achieve the targets set for the elimination of tuberculosis from Jammu & Kashmir by 2025 as per the National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2017-2025.
Chairing a meeting held to review the implementation of the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP), Sub National Certification Claims and Adult BGC Vaccination Trial in Jammu and Kashmir, he instructed them to expedite procurement of pending lab equipment in the Intermediate Reference Laboratory (IRL) of Jammu division for making it operational at the earliest.
Nazim exhorted the concerned to conduct an external death audit of TB patients and Contact Tracing of active pulmonary TB cases. He asked for the mapping of all Ayushman Arogya Mandirs with Nikshay Portal for providing TB drugs as per the mandate of Central TB division, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Emphasizing the importance of Nikshay Poshan Yojana, the MD directed the officers to bring all the eligible beneficiaries under the ambit of NPY. Among others, the meeting was attended by the Director Health, Services Kashmir, Director Family Welfare and Immunization, J&K, State Tuberculosis Officer Kashmir, State Immunization Officer J&K besides Chief Medical Officers, District TB Officers and other officers and officials from NHM and Health Department.
