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Centre to ensure six months of supplies of TB drugs to states
Mint New Delhi
|March 04, 2025
The government is working on a plan to ensure that states and Union Territories (UT) have, at any given time, stocks of tuberculosis (TB) drugs and diagnostic kits that last at least six months, as India aims to eliminate the infectious respiratory disease by the end of this year.
Currently, the Centre is ensuring that all states have stocks for at least three months to treat the patients.
This story is from the March 04, 2025 edition of Mint New Delhi.
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