TB patients without documents miss aid

Homeless tuberculosis patients successful Delhi are struggling to entree the Centre’s Nikshay Poshan Yojana due to the fact that they bash not person Aadhaar cards, slope accounts oregon mobile numbers, leaving galore without the nutritional enactment meant to assistance their recovery.

According to a nationalist involvement litigation filed by NGO Social Jurist done advocator Ashok Aggarwal successful the Delhi High Court, 35 patients person not received nutritional enactment nether the scheme, which provides ₹1,000 a period during treatment. It cited the India TB Report 2024, according to which lone astir 70% of notified TB patients person assistance via nonstop payment transfers.