India’s efforts are resulted in a decline of 16% in TB incidence (new cases emerging each year) and a 18% reduction in mortality due to TB, since 2015.
There were only 2.3 lakh missing cases in 2023, as compared to 3.2 lakh the year before, the report states.
This gap has been reducing over the years, especially with the government’s Ni-kshay portal tracking all TB patients.
Nearly 33% or 8.4 lakh of the 25.5 lakh cases reported in 2023 came from the private sector.
To compare, only 1.9 lakh cases were reported by the private sector in 2015.
The estimated incidence of TB in 2023 increased slightly to 27.8 lakh from the previous year’s estimate of 27.4 lakh.
The mortality due to the infection remained the same at 3.2 lakh as per the data.
India’s TB mortality was dropped from 4.94 lakhs in 2021 to 3.31 lakhs in 2022.
The number of cases reported in a year also went down from 29.4 lakh in 2021 as per the previous method to 27.4 lakh in 2022.