Tikapur Municipality of Kailali district has distributed foodstuff to the people suffering from tuberculosis. A dozen of such people were provided rice, lentil, sugar, eggs and other things considering the nutrition they need for health.
The foodstuffs are distributed in the wake of the Dashain festival.
The coordinator at the public health promotion section at the municipality, Bal Bahadur Rawal, informed that the local level had planned to distribute food grains and other daily essentials to as many as 102 tuberculosis patients. The local level has been conducting various programs to free the municipality of tuberculosis.
The municipality had recorded 176 tuberculosis sufferers last year. Similarly, the poor and sick ones are provided food grains and daily essentials by the municipality. Last year, 102 such persons were distributed the foodstuffs, Rawal added.
Moreover, the tuberculosis patients are provided with skill-oriented training and public health awareness.
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