India made significant strides in healthcare since 2014, focus on quality, affordability: Nadda. He also hailed the government’s efforts in reducing the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) as well as the Infant Mortality rate (IMR) in the country. According to the WHO Global TB Report 2024, India has witnessed a noteworthy 17.7 per cent decline in TB incidence from 2015 to 2023 — a rate that is over twice the global average decline of 8.3 per cent. Notably, India aims to eliminate TB in 2025, five years ahead of the global target.Nadda also emphasised the need for bringing lifestyle changes to ward off the threat of non-communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and cancers. He added that the ongoing 100-day TB elimination campaign, spanning 455 districts across 33 states, has detected five lakh TB patients already. He said this citing the work done on Ayushman Arogya Mandir under the National Health Mission (NHM) which “strengthened the foundation of primary healthcare in the overall healthcare pyramid”
