Tamil Nadu’s spending on drugs for Non-Communicable Diseases has nearly tripled after the introduction of the Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam scheme, Health Secretary Gagandeep Singh Bedi said on Friday. The NCD drugs budget, supported by the NHM, for treating patients with hypertension and diabetes stood at about ₹35 crore before MTM was introduced during 2020-21. Through MTM, a pioneering scheme, women …
A path-breaking massive surveillance and intervention project, the Tamil Nadu government’s Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam is definitely an example of how a welfare state would take care of the health requirements of its people. In order to make a dent in NCDs at the population level in the long term, we need to address the root causes; risk factors, like unhealthy …
