Till a patient gets the Aadhaar number, he or she can avail the benefits with the help of Aadhaar enrolment ID slip, a copy of the request made for Aadhaar enrolment or other government documents such as voter identity card, PAN card, bank passbook, ration card, among others. “This notification will come into effect from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette in all the states and Union territory administrations except Assam, Meghalaya, and Jammu and Kashmir,” it added.
The RNTCP under the National Health Mission aims at promotion of universal access to tuberculosis (TB) care with early diagnosis and regular treatment completion. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently said that tuberculosis epidemic in India was “larger” than what had been previously estimated and asserted that the country was one of six nations which accounted for 60 per cent of the new cases in 2015.
According to reports, the prevalence of TB in India was at 217 per 1,00,000 population in 2015 as against the previously estimated 127. The government has pledged its commitment to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025, five years ahead of the global goal to reduce the number of such deaths by 90 per cent by 2030.
Source: Business Standard