In a bid to encourage community participation in eradicating tuberculosis (TB), the state Health and cooperative ministerDhan Singh Rawat announced that all the 670 Primary Agricultural credit Society (PACS) — multipurpose cooperative committees — of Uttarakhand, along with the chairman and secretary of thecooperatives, will adopt over 15,000 TB patients.
The cooperatives will ensure that the adopted TB patients get adequate treatment and proper care. Chairman and secretaries of these cooperatives will reach out to these patients to find out if they are getting medicines on time or facing any other issues.