Thane among top 10 in Maharashtra in TB care, states report
(WorldNews India)

THANE: Thane city falls under the top 10 cities in the state that provides tuberculosis (TB) care according to a quarterly report of the government´s Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP). Officials from the Thane civic health department said that the rankings are done on the basis of five criteria - number of patients not suffering from the disease, notifying the government about TB patients from both public and private hospitals, conducting HIV tests of patients, providing them the Cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test (CBNAAT) test and giving them financial benefit....