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Recently, the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) has been rechristened as the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP). In this context consider the following statements regarding NTEP: 1. It aims to eliminate the disease by 2025 five years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goals target. 2. It provides for the first time free of cost diagnosis of TB and treatment of TB patients. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Recently, the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) has been rechristened as the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP). In this context consider the following statements regarding NTEP: 1. It aims to eliminate the disease by 2025 five years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goals target. 2. It provides for the first time free of cost diagnosis of TB and treatment of TB patients. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Correct Answer 1 only

The correct answer is 1 only.

Key Points

  • Recent Context: On January 1, 2020, India’s TB control program got a change of name. It is no longer known as the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) and has been rechristened as the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP).
  • The name change is in line with the larger goal of eliminating the disease by 2025 five years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goals target.
  • Under Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the United Nations member countries have united to fight TB and eliminate it by 2030. Hence, statement 1 is correct.
  • About RNTCP:
    • ​The large-scale implementation of the Indian government’s Revised National TB Control Program (RNTCP) (sometimes known as RNTCP 1) was started in 1997.
    • The RNTCP was then expanded across India until the entire nation was covered by the RNTCP in March 2006.
    • At this time the RNTCP also became known as RNTCP II.
    • RNTCP II was designed to consolidate the gains achieved in RNTCP I, and to initiate services to address TB/HIV, MDR-TB, and extend RNTCP to the private sector.
  • RNTCP uses the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended Directly Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTS) strategy The RNTCP is responsible for carrying out the Government of India five year TB National Strategic Plans.
  • With the RNTCP both diagnosis and treatment of TB are free. There is also, at least in theory, no waiting period for patients seeking treatment and TB drugs. Hence, statement 2 is not correct.

​Additional Information

  • The initial objectives of the RNTCP in India were:
    •  To achieve and maintain a TB treatment success rate of at least 85% among new sputum positive (NSP) patients.
    •  To achieve and maintain detection of at least 70% of the estimated new sputum positive people in the community (New sputum positive patients are those people who have never received TB treatment before, or who have taken TB drugs for less than a month. They have also had a positive result to a sputum test, which diagnoses them as having TB.)
  • The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry have launched the National Strategic Plan (NSP) for Tuberculosis (TB) Elimination (2017-2025), which comes as an extension to the earlier NSP plan. The target is achievable with three main points:
  • increasing domestic resources, especially in high TB burden areas
  • finding those people with TB who have been missed in the past, and
  • making leaders, policymakers, and other stakeholders accountable for the TB response in their areas in terms of key indicators, targets, and commitments made.
  • The NSP (2017-2025) is based on the DETECT-TREAT-PREVENT-BUILD approach.

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Fever in the season of dengue is sending Calcuttans scurrying to hospitals for admission, triggering a shortage of beds that has forced some private health care institutes to even postpone planned surgeries. Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals on the Bypass had 504 patients in its care as on Thursday of whom 70 had been admitted with fever. Belle Vue Clinic had 180 patients, 32 of them with dengue. Calcutta Medical Research Institute had 350 patients 60 of them with fever. The number of people admitted for treatment of fever caused by dengue or any undiagnosed illness has been rising every day across hospitals for more than a fortnight. "There has been heavy pressure on all private hospitals for admission of dengue and cases of unknown fever since the beginning of August. Now it is a surge," said Pradip Tondon, President of the Association of Hospitals of Eastern India. In July, four to five patients were getting admitted with fever on an average in every hospital. The number has since ballooned with the Calcutta Municipal Corporation apparently in denial about the extent of the dengue outbreak and the Government focused on playing down the threat. Such has been the rush of patients with fever that some hospitals are calling up people to postpone admissions planned in advance, mostly for surgeries. "We have told many people to come only when we call them to confirm availability of beds," said an official at Belle Vue.
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Fever in the season of dengue is sending Calcuttans scurrying to hospitals for admission, triggering a shortage of beds that has forced some private health care institutes to even postpone planned surgeries. Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals on the Bypass had 504 patients in its care as on Thursday of whom 70 had been admitted with fever. Belle Vue Clinic had 180 patients, 32 of them with dengue. Calcutta Medical Research Institute had 350 patients 60 of them with fever. The number of people admitted for treatment of fever caused by dengue or any undiagnosed illness has been rising every day across hospitals for more than a fortnight. "There has been heavy pressure on all private hospitals for admission of dengue and cases of unknown fever since the beginning of August. Now it is a surge," said Pradip Tondon, President of the Association of Hospitals of Eastern India. In July, four to five patients were getting admitted with fever on an average in every hospital. The number has since ballooned with the Calcutta Municipal Corporation apparently in denial about the extent of the dengue outbreak and the Government focused on playing down the threat. Such has been the rush of patients with fever that some hospitals are calling up people to postpone admissions planned in advance, mostly for surgeries. "We have told many people to come only when we call them to confirm availability of beds," said an official at Belle Vue.
The Government's "playing down the threat" means
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Fever in the season of dengue is sending Calcuttans scurrying to hospitals for admission, triggering a shortage of beds that has forced some private health care institutes to even postpone planned surgeries. Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals on the Bypass had 504 patients in its care as on Thursday of whom 70 had been admitted with fever. Belle Vue Clinic had 180 patients, 32 of them with dengue. Calcutta Medical Research Institute had 350 patients 60 of them with fever. The number of people admitted for treatment of fever caused by dengue or any undiagnosed illness has been rising every day across hospitals for more than a fortnight. "There has been heavy pressure on all private hospitals for admission of dengue and cases of unknown fever since the beginning of August. Now it is a surge," said Pradip Tondon, President of the Association of Hospitals of Eastern India. In July, four to five patients were getting admitted with fever on an average in every hospital. The number has since ballooned with the Calcutta Municipal Corporation apparently in denial about the extent of the dengue outbreak and the Government focused on playing down the threat. Such has been the rush of patients with fever that some hospitals are calling up people to postpone admissions planned in advance, mostly for surgeries. "We have told many people to come only when we call them to confirm availability of beds," said an official at Belle Vue.
The word 'ballooned' implies
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Belle Vue Clinic is the name of
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Fever in the season of dengue is sending Calcuttans scurrying to hospitals for admission, triggering a shortage of beds that has forced some private health care institutes to even postpone planned surgeries. Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals on the Bypass had 504 patients in its care as on Thursday of whom 70 had been admitted with fever. Belle Vue Clinic had 180 patients, 32 of them with dengue. Calcutta Medical Research Institute had 350 patients 60 of them with fever. The number of people admitted for treatment of fever caused by dengue or any undiagnosed illness has been rising every day across hospitals for more than a fortnight. "There has been heavy pressure on all private hospitals for admission of dengue and cases of unknown fever since the beginning of August. Now it is a surge," said Pradip Tondon, President of the Association of Hospitals of Eastern India. In July, four to five patients were getting admitted with fever on an average in every hospital. The number has since ballooned with the Calcutta Municipal Corporation apparently in denial about the extent of the dengue outbreak and the Government focused on playing down the threat. Such has been the rush of patients with fever that some hospitals are calling up people to postpone admissions planned in advance, mostly for surgeries. "We have told many people to come only when we call them to confirm availability of beds," said an official at Belle Vue.
The reason for shortage of beds in hospitals is
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