After a delay of nearly a year, the State is expected to roll out the daily drug regimen for treatment of tuberculosis (TB) under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in February this year. All drug procurement logistics and trainings have been completed by the State.

Delays in drug procurement at the Centre seems to have affected the rollout of the daily drug regimen for the treatment of tuberculosis under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in Kerala as well as in the four other States where the programme was to have been piloted by March this year.