Webinar: Monastery Magic, from TB to Zero TB V 2.0
Thursday, 27th of February
2PM CET
The Union TB and Migration group is happy to announce a new rendition of this webinar.
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Nestling in the Himalayan mountains, Rumtek Monastery is located in Sikkim-northeast India with about 300 monastic inhabitants. The Monastery had multiple tuberculosis (TB) cases including the drug resistant form in last few years.
Health camps were conducted in 2018-2019 to screen for active TB and confirmed diagnosis by rapid molecular diagnostics TrueNat MTB Rif.
No TB cases were reported then. In the past two years, the monastery has switched nutrition to a calories dense diet and introduced cow milk besides few changes in living conditions. Could all this have accounted for not finding TB cases at screening? The inhabitants and cows are now being screened for latent TB infection/bovine TB before Rumtek Monastery can be declared “Zero TB”.
To find out more about our speaker, Shikha Dhawan, please visit out Committee page.