Medical camp for MDR Tb and XDR Tb patients

As you are all aware that there is a decline in the incidence of hiv cases and through the very effective ART policy of the government a lot of hiv related complications have drastically reduced!!

Now the focus is slowly shifting towards Multidrug resistant TB and XDR Tb which is creating havoc in the affected individuals and their families..Most of the families have been reduced to abject poverty…

Pacemakers 86 trust partnered with ” Radhakrishna trust” and we organised a medical camp for about 52 MDR Tb and XDR Tb patients of Bengaluru, today.We distributed Rations containing Rice, sugar, wheat powder, cooking oil and a Maiyas Mysore pak pack.Ladies were given a new saree and for males we distributed new dhothis.All the higherups of State TB department were present for the function..A health check up camp was also done!

It was so disheartening to see so many multi drug resistant tb patients ,but by the end of the day we were happy that we brought in a few smiles☺