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b) Health Centre Based
 
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AU : Deshmukh MD
TI : Anti-tuberculosis shibirs (TB camps) where work becomes a pleasure.
SO : INDIAN J TB 1972, 19, 68-72.
DT : Per
AB :

Eighteen TB camps were conducted in Bombay between January 1969 and April 1971 to provide diagnosis and treatment facilities to rural areas. The total number of persons examined were 7,351, the number of persons screened 2,782, the number of radiological cases of pulmonary TB seen 562, the number of sputum positive, 152 and the number of BCG vaccinations done, 23,308. It was concluded that TB camps played a substantial role in the Anti-TB measures, especially, in rural areas and, other developing nations could organize such TB camps.

KEYWORDS: SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIAL RELIEF, INDIA.
 
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