Join the Walk for Life: Vadodara Steps Up for TB Awareness
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Tricolour Hospitals organize a Walkathon followed by Health Talks and CPR Training at IOCL Colony to spread awareness about World Tuberculosis Day
Tricolour Hospitals situated at a prime location in Vadodara city which is equipped with Ultramodern infrastructure, a highly skilled team, and the pursuit of trust, care, and excellence, provides comprehensive services under one roof to facilitate a patient’s treatment and recovery. The core objective of this Medical Institution is to deliver top-of-the-line treatment and diagnostic modalities that are affordable for all.
Dr Divyesh Patel, Consultant and Critical Care Specialist of Tricolour Hospitals informed Media friends that World Tuberculosis Day is celebrated worldwide on 24th March and it amplifies the urgency of ending tuberculosis—the world’s deadliest infectious disease. TB continues to devastate millions globally, inflicting severe health, social, and economic consequences. This year’s theme of 2025 is : Yes! We Can End TB: Commit, Invest, Deliver, is a bold call for hope, urgency, and accountability.
To Spread awareness about TB Eradication, Tricolour Hospitals will be collaborating with the IOCL family, and a Walkathon followed by a Health Talk and CPR training will be organized at Kundal Hall, IOCL Colony on 24th March, Monday from morning 5.30 am onwards, and more than 700-800 participants are expected to participate in this awareness program in presence of renowned Doctors and top officials of Indian Oil Corporation.
Some current Global Facts on World TB DAY
- TB remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers.
- 8 million people fell ill with TB in 2023
- 25 million people died of TB in 2023
- 79 million lives saved since 2000 by global efforts to end TB
- Each day, close to 3425 people lose their lives to TB and close to 30,000 people fall ill with this preventable and curable disease.
- Global efforts to combat TB have saved around 79 million lives in the last 25 years. There was a significant worldwide recovery in the scale-up of TB diagnosis and treatment services in the year 2022.
- In its latest Global Tuberculosis Report, WHO highlighted that more than 8.2 million people with TB received access to diagnosis and treatment in 2023 up from 7.5 million in 2022 and far above the levels of 5.8 million in 2020 and 6.4 million in 2021. There is still a large global gap between the estimated number of people who fell ill with TB and the number of people newly diagnosed.
- In addition, the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting agreed on new targets to end TB, and we launched the TB Vaccine Accelerator Council, to facilitate the development, licensing, and equitable use of new TB vaccines.
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