{"id":226732,"date":"2023-10-20T01:42:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=226732"},"modified":"2023-10-20T01:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:12:37","slug":"dc-seeks-panchayat-leaders-and-hods-cooperation-in-fight-against-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/10\/20\/dc-seeks-panchayat-leaders-and-hods-cooperation-in-fight-against-tb\/","title":{"rendered":"DC seeks panchayat leaders and HoDs&#8217; cooperation in fight against TB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AALO, 19 Oct:<\/strong> West Siang DC Penga Tato sought the cooperation of the panchayat leaders and heads of various departments in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) to eliminate the disease by 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chairing a meeting on the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) here on Thursday, Tato said that social stigma associated with TB is also a hurdle in the fight against the disease. He emphasized on ending the stigma and discrimination associated with the disease by spreading awareness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the meeting, the DC presented gifts to the &#8216;TB Champions&#8217; and their relatives as a token of love for successfully completing their treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">District TB officer Dr. Nyade Padu Bagra highlighted the activities under NTEP and shared challenges and solutions to eliminate TB.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DMO Dr. Dubom Bagra emphasized on earmarking of the areas with high TB patients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">West Siang ZPC Tumpe Ete and the DDSE also spoke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting was attended by HoDs, members of the District TB Forum, TB Champion(s) and staff of NTEP, Aalo. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AALO, 19 Oct: West Siang DC Penga Tato sought the cooperation of the panchayat leaders and heads of various departments in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) to eliminate the disease by 2025. Chairing a meeting on the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) here on Thursday, Tato said that social stigma associated with TB is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-226732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}