NIKSHAY
MITRA – SCI & TECHNOLOGY
News: ‘Nikshay Mitra’ Coming To Aid Of TB
Patients
What's
in the news?
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Under the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat
Abhiyaan (Ni-kshay Mitra Initiative) implemented by the Ministry of Health
& Family Welfare, 9.55 lakh out of the 9.69 lakh consented TB patients
across the country have been adopted by Ni-kshay Mitra.
Ni-kshay
Mitra:
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It is an initiative under Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan.
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It is an initiative launched by President
Droupadi Murmu in 2022 which strives to provide aid to TB-afflicted patients on
three levels of nutritional, additional diagnostic, and vocational support.
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More than 47,000 Nikshay Mitra & 8.8
lakh TB patients have been connected through Ni-Kshaya 2.0 portal.
Donors:
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Ni-kshay
Mitra (Donor) for this programme includes co-operative
societies, corporates, elected representatives, individuals, institutions,
non-governmental organisations, political parties and partners who can support
by adopting the health facilities (for individual donor), blocks/urban
wards/districts/States for accelerating the response against TB to complement
the government efforts.
Objective:
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It aims to eradicate the existing societal stigma and discrimination against TB
patients and provide them with much-needed nutritional and social support, and
help them lead a normal life.
Ni-kshay
2.0 portal:
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The Ni-kshay 2.0 portal provides a digital
platform for extending community support to persons with TB and leveraging
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) opportunities.
Timeframe:
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Support can be extended to persons with
TB, for a minimum duration of one year and a maximum of three years, in any
block or district across the country.
Go
back to basics:
Ni-kshay:
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Ni-kshay (Ni=End, Kshay=TB) is the web
enabled patient management system for TB control under the National
Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP).
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It is developed
and maintained by the Central TB Division (CTD), Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare, Government of India, in collaboration with the National
Informatics Centre (NIC), and the World Health Organization Country office for
India.
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Ni-kshay is used by health functionaries
at various levels across the country both in the public and private sector, to
register cases under their care, order various types of tests from Labs across
the country, record treatment details, monitor treatment adherence and to
transfer cases between care providers.
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It also functions as the National TB Surveillance System and
enables reporting of various surveillance data to the Government of India.