TB testing equipment for TN hospitals
With focus on screening and testing patients for tuberculosis, RC Rasipuram, RID 2982, has donated a molecular testing machine to the Government Hospital, a fluorescent microscope to GH, Namakkal, and a microscope each to 10 primary health centres in and around Rasipuram to enhance the TB testing facilities through a global grant project worth ₹27.4 lakh. Rasipuram is a town in the revenue district of Namakkal in Tamil Nadu.
RC Cornette-Furquim Castro, RID 4630, Brazil was the global partner. As the National TB Elimination Programme mandates the supply of nutritional diet consisting of pulses, eggs, cooking oil etc to boost the immunity of patients under treatment, “we have arranged for the monthly supply of pulses worth ₹600 to 20 TB patients for six months, costing ₹72,000,” said N P Ramaswamy, project chairman.
The TB screening machine was launched at the hospital by Namakkal district collector S Uma. IPDG S Raghavan, PDG P Saravanan, DRFC S Lokanathan, district grants chair Babu Kandasamy, project chairman Ramaswamy and club president P Srinivasan were present at the event.
