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Pb: Free Therapy, Analyzing of Hepatitis B

CHANDIGARH: Punjab introduced free testing and treatment for Hepatitis B from all of the government health centers throughout the state.
Health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu shared the the government has introduced Hepatitis B screening evaluations and treatment from all of the medical schools, district hospitals (DHs), sub-divisional hospitals (SDHs) and anti- retroviral therapy (ART), oral substitution treatment (OST) centers ) Furthermore, Hepatitis B viral load testing centre is going to be extended in 27 centers, free of price to the health of marginalised segments.
The state health department has entered into an speed contract labs under which they’ve supplied a lab technician at each district hospital and hospital medical school.
Hepatitis B trials will be taken at those institutions by the individual free of charge, although the total cost of this test is going to be reimbursed into the laboratory in the speed of Rs 851 from the state authorities.
The line of therapy for Hepatitis B is expensive and extensive however, the state authorities will provide free medicine, ” said Sidhu.
The Hepatitis B optimistic Punjab patients under therapy in PGI is going to be given medication with no cost educated HM and included that a nodal officer was deputed at PGI for exactly the exact same and continues to be given overstock of requisite drugs.
All of us infected with HIV, men under treatment in OST centers and pregnant women will likely be prolonged the Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C testing absolutely free of charge.
Any Quick test positive will soon be accompanied with a totally free viral load evaluation.
Sidhu stated that Punjab had been the first country in the nation to introduce completely free evaluation and therapy for Hepatitis C approximately five decades back.
The Hepatitis C Remedy Centres are improved from 25 to 66.
So much about 96,000 patients at Punjab are researched for Hepatitis C with no cost with a treatment rate of 93 percent.
The therapy of Hepatitis C was continued even through the pandemic.
From the year 2020, approximately 12,000 patients had been treated with Hepatitis C and from May 2021, roughly 4,900 patients are treated.

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