Prof Surya Kant said that apart from TB, there are six other major challenges that confront public health in Uttar Pradesh and the country. Air pollution, all forms of tobacco use, increasing modernization, urbanization and industrialization, bad diet and unhealthy lifestyles, are propelling an amalgam of epidemics in the country that are entirely preventable in terms of disease burden and untimely deaths. These are also causing an alarming rise in allergic disorders, asthma, chronic objective pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease, lung cancer, bronchial cases, and so many other lung diseases.
If we are to end TB by 2025 in India and by 2030 globally, much stronger actions are needed with renewed sense of urgency and purpose.
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