The governments notification mandates enrollment for Aadhaar lastly by August 31, 2017 to avail the benefits.As per RNTCP, a financial grant of Rs 1,000 is provided monthly for a period of two years to the patients suffering from multi drug-resistant TB.Officials at District TB office seeking anonymity, said that the money was sent directly to the bank accounts of patients by the Union Ministry and denied their involvement in handling the monetary grants.Aadhaar compulsory for RNTCP?The recent notification on RNTCP says that an eligible individual can avail the benefit of financial grant needs to possess Aadhaar card for easy identification and for easy record of beneficiaries of the scheme.Manoj, relative of a TB patient at the hospital, said, "My father has been admitted in the hospital for around seven months now, but we have not availed cash under any government scheme. Though the proportion of children among new TB patients was six percent in 2016, it has seen a surge this year, with late diagnosis being the prime cause. This owes to the high rate of late detection of TB, mostly when it gets worse," says Dr V Ranjith, a senior paediatrician. "There are non-specific symptoms for the detection of TB in children, which makes diagnosis a bit difficult."Children cannot be diagnosed with TB through the sputum technique as they swallow it generally.Chennai: The introduction of new techniques, 500 CBNAAT machines for TB diagnosis, GeneXpert, new drugs such as Bedaquilline and expansion of diagnostic facilities to 628 Custom Nylon Slider Suppliers laboratories in the country notwithstanding, tuberculosis has led to 4. But most of the TB patients in the city are ignorant of these facts and are not given any such benefit. We hope that it will improve TB case detection in children". And TB in-patients below poverty line are provided this grant through State Tuberculosis Centers by Union Health Ministry.Pulmonologists and paediatricians mention about the absence of appropriate samples and decentralised capacity to get appropriate samples to test for TB as a challenge in TB detection in children.However, officials at the State TB office said, "Aadhaar is not mandatory as many patients dont possess Aadhaar cards. We have to rely on chest X-ray mostly as other invasive techniques such as Gastric Lavage and GeneXpert are difficult to perform on small children for sample collection," says Dr Murugan, a senior pulmonologist.Ram, who underwent treatment for TB at Government Hospital for Thoracic Medicine said, "I have not received any communication from the hospital that any kind of monetary help will be given. It is not only the patients but also the medicos providing healthcare facilities for TB patients who seem to be ignorant of the fact that TB patients are given such benefits along with free TB treatment. We have to carry out invasive techniques to detect TB by extracting acid from the stomach through a tube.

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