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Description The advent of powerful anti-tuberculosis drugs has brought hope of recovery throughout the world to millions of people who previously had none. The medical profession, too, was faced with a new situation: new methods of controlling TB were evolving, among them home treatment, which altered the entire approach to the world problem. All this emerged from intensive investigations carried out by WHO in cooperation with a number of agencies and government authorities in India and elsewhere.

At Patna, capital of Bihar State, in north-eastern India, the government authorities have established a model Tuberculosis Control Demonstration and Training Centre which is being assisted by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. The project is financed in part by UN Technical Assistance Funds. Modern techniques of examination make possible early diagnosis of tuberculosis, and early diagnosis greatly increases the patient's chances of recovery. The Centre is housed in a modern building where sufferers come for help and where young men and woman are being trained to give such help in treating and still more important, in preventing tuberculosis.

Asset date 01/01/1959

Country, area, WHO office India

City Patna

WHO Region SEARO

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