Action time NSGF India

1. Role of Micronutrients Therapy
in TB treatment
as recommended by WHO in 2012

2.  Intercultural dialogue is a vast subject with its
social, educational, business, environment,
health care and many other dimensions.
 We, the members of the Maharashtra State
Branch of the Indian Scout & Guide Fellowship
and its district units in the city of Mumbai &
Thane embarked upon a crucial health care
project of “campaign to fight against TB” in
the month of April 2017 with its background
history of working with a senior TB specialist,
Dr.Lalit Anande at Asia’s biggest 1500
bedded hospital in Mumbai.

3.  We, in Mumbai, could gather very fruitful data
on the treatment of TB patients by providing
nutritional therapy and thereby reducing the
rate of mortality & extending the life span of
the patients and even make them free from
the disease.

4.  TB is the most rampant and rapid disease
spreading in large part of the world,
particularly in poor, underdeveloped and
developing countries in Asia, Africa, Arab
World and elsewhere.
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 The co-operation of the ISGF Members. In
different countries will result in intercultural
relationship in health care irrespective of
caste, creed, religion, language and any
racial discrimination.

5.  India being the highest contributor.
 India accounts for 2.8 million of the 10.4
million new Tuberculosis cases globally as
per WHO
 34% Hike

7. • 4.85 Lacks per Year (under estimated)
• 40,417 Per month
• 1328 Per day
• 56 per hour
• 0.93 per Min

9. Dr. Lalit Anande, CMO,
Sewree, TB Hospital Mumbai
has been fighting a long
battle against the Multidrug
Resistant TB

11.  One of his observation was there were
patients who left the clinic without treatment
but had received adequate nutritional support
 These patients displayed good health and
weight gain.
 Good & well ventilated environment helps to
improve.

14.  Maharashtra State Ind SGF Branch & Its Thane
and Grater Mumbai Units took up a project to
provide Micro-Nutrients Therapy to them.

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 30 patients ware taken up for study and were
given regular dosages of Micro-Nutrients
including Vitamin A, C, D, multi vitamins,
Calcium & Enriched Protein Powder.
 Patients were followed up for three months to
study key parameters.
◦ General Condition
◦ Weight Gain
◦ Hemoglobin
◦ ESR & WBC Count

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