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“
Many years back when I was hospitalised in a private hospital at Lormi tehsil
in Chhattisgarh, I observed that one old patient had come there for treatment of
severe cough. But the doctor was so cool and just gave him one injection and sent
him back to his home in a village nearby without any diagnosis or tests.
Out of curiosity I asked the old man about his health and was shocked to hear that he
was suffering from severe cough since last 3 years, and he used to visit the same
doctor since last 3 years intermittently and take the same injections just for
immediate relief.
” - Ravish Das
Chhattisgarh
“ I have been working under the government’s Revised National Tuberculosis
Control Programme (RNTCP) for the last eleven years. As we know, we cannot win
any war without soldiers. But no one is taking care of the RNTCP workers who are
fighting as soldiers against the TB disease.
Many of them have died due to TB infection while trying to help others. There is no
mediclaim, accidental claim, no risk allowance. The field staff is on a contract basis
and getting a very small salary. If the government will regularise them, it will
strengthen the programme and be a big moral support for them. Please convey this
message to the government.
” - Amit
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Many years back when I was hospitalised in a private hospital at Lormi tehsil
in Chhattisgarh, I observed that one old patient had come there for treatment of
severe cough. But the doctor was so cool and just gave him one injection and sent
him back to his home in a village nearby without any diagnosis or tests.
Out of curiosity I asked the old man about his health and was shocked to hear that he
was suffering from severe cough since last 3 years, and he used to visit the same
doctor since last 3 years intermittently and take the same injections just for
immediate relief.
” - Ravish Das
Chhattisgarh
“ I have been working under the government’s Revised National Tuberculosis
Control Programme (RNTCP) for the last eleven years. As we know, we cannot win
any war without soldiers. But no one is taking care of the RNTCP workers who are
fighting as soldiers against the TB disease.
Many of them have died due to TB infection while trying to help others. There is no
mediclaim, accidental claim, no risk allowance. The field staff is on a contract basis
and getting a very small salary. If the government will regularise them, it will
strengthen the programme and be a big moral support for them. Please convey this
message to the government.
” - Amit
20
