Lucknow, March 6 -- To eliminate Tuberculosis (TB) from the Siddharth Nagar district and other districts in Uttar Pradesh, AI enabled Handheld Xray machines are playing critical role on accelerating India's progress towards ending TB by providing screening in vulnerable areas.

These Handheld X-ray machines are used by the districts in camps and Ayushman Arogya Mandirs.

According to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Rajat Kumar Chaurasia, "With the help of these portable X-ray machines we do at least 150 tests in a day though it has capacity for more than 250 examinations in a day within 5 seconds."

"If we found signs of TB disease in X-ray then we send patient for the another testing i.e NAAT that assures through sputum in just 40 min...