India, March 18 -- image credit- pib

Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Anupriya Patel inaugurated the India Innovation Summit - Pioneering Solutions to End Tuberculosis (TB), at Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre, on 18th March in Delhi. The Summit is being organised jointly by the Department of Health Research-Indian Council of Medical Research (DHR-ICMR) and the Central TB Division (CTD), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW). The summit aims to accelerate India's progress towards TB elimination by 2025.

Underlining the new innovations rolled out under the TB Mukt Bharat- 100 Days Intensified Campaign, the Minister stated that, "ICMR has validated three indigenous handheld X-ray devices, which makes it possib...