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The door-to-door campaign aims to quickly detect the disease so that patients can be treated in time and the spread of infection stopped. The campaign will focus on densely populated areas with huge pockets of slums, such as Govandi, Mankhurd, Malwani, Antop Hill and Kurla. In the first phase, conducted between January and March, 1.71 people were examined.
Dr. Padmaja Keskar, Health Manager at BMC, stated that the areas were selected each year based on new detections. "Our volunteers will look for a history of fever and prolonged cough, and suspected patients will be referred to nearby clinics for sputum tests, while those requiring an X-ray will receive it for free," she said. In addition to civic facilities, BMC has established links with private centers where suspects can undergo radiological examinations.
According to BMC, 297 teams of health volunteers will examine 1.6 morning lakh houses until 4 pm. Volunteers will probably be encouraged to notify cases. Keskar said the volunteers will make several visits so that those missed during the first laps are not left behind.
Mumbai remains one of the most populous cities in the country. In 2017, nearly 45,000 cases of drug-susceptible tuberculosis were detected, while cases of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis had more than 5,000 cases.
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