India, March 25 -- By Shalini Bhardwaj

New Delhi [India], March 25 (ANI): Ramkumar S, Secretary and Mission Director (MD) of the National Health Mission (NHM) in Meghalaya, who himself recovered from Tuberculosis, said that they have launched the 100-day TB programme as well as the Comprehensive TB Care Programme in the state.

"In Meghalaya, we have launched the 100-day TB programme as well as the Comprehensive TB Care Programme under which we are planning to completely reduce the mortality or morbidity due to TB... We have already launched a differentiated TB care programme in which we have categorised people as very high risk, medium risk and low risk... So through this, we wanted to ensure that the mortality rate in the state of Megh...