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MP aims for TB-free Khammam
MP Bandi Partha Saradhi Reddy distributing nutritional kits to TB patients in a recent programme held at Sathupally in Khammam district.
Bandi Partha Saradhi Reddy supports Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan
He embarked on nutritional kits distribution programme, which has been launched at Sathupalli in the district recently, aiming to boost the health condition of the people suffering from TB.In Khammam there are 19,000 people suffering from tuberculosis while in Kothagudem 13,000 persons have been affected by the disease, he said. In various meetings, the MP said after I got elected as a Rajya Sabha member, as a pharmaceutical scientist and chairman of Hetero I wished to do my part for the Central government's initiative to end TB.Under the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, I have adopted Khammam and Kothagudem districts and decided to provide nutritional kits to patients,"DrReddy said.
For the next three years, nutritional kits would be supplied to the patients at their doorsteps every month between the first and the fifth day. A budget of Rs 1.5 crore has been allotted for the purpose, he said.
