Punjab government has introduced free testing and treatment of Hepatitis B in all government Health institutions, Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said on Tuesday.
Presiding over the state-wide launch of the initiative at district hospital in Mohali, Sidhu said the has introduced Hepatitis B screening tests and treatment in all medical colleges, District Hospitals (DHs), Sub-Divisional Hospitals (SDHs) and AntiRetroviral Treatment (ART) and Oral Substitution Therapy (OST) centres.
The line of treatment for Hepatitis B is extensive and expensive but the state government will give free medicine to the concerned. Even the Hepatitis B positive Punjab patients under treatment in PGIMER will be provided medicine free of cost