Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel inaugurated the India Innovation Summit – Pioneering Solutions to End TB at Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre.

• The event, jointly organised by the Department of Health Research-Indian Council of Medical Research (DHR-ICMR) and the Central TB Division (CTD) under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, aims to accelerate India’s efforts to eliminate TB by 2025.
• Anupriya Patel highlighted India’s significant progress in TB control and the critical role of innovation in achieving this goal.
• Patel outlined the achievements of the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP), noting that the number of missing TB cases had reduced from 15 lakh in 2015 to 2.5 lakh in 2023.
• The programme recorded 25.5 lakh TB cases in 2023 and 26.07 lakh in 2024, the highest number of notified cases ever.
• Citing the World Health Organization’s Global TB Report 2024, she stated that TB incidence in India has declined by 17.7 per cent, from 237 per lakh population in 2015 to 195 per lakh in 2023, while TB-related deaths have fallen by 21.4 per cent, from 28 per lakh in 2015 to 22 per lakh in 2023.
• TB treatment coverage has increased significantly, rising from 53 per cent in 2015 to 85 per cent in 2023.