Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the dedication of healthcare workers in India’s fight against tuberculosis (TB).
In a short post on X, Modi highlighted the latest WHO Global TB Report 2025, which shows that India has cut its TB incidence by 21 % since 2015 – almost double the global fall of 12 %. The report says India’s new‑case rate fell from 237 per lakh people in 2015 to 187 per lakh in 2024.
“It is a sharp drop and one of the steepest in the world,” Modi said. He thanked everyone involved in expanding treatment coverage, reducing “missing cases” – people with TB who never notified the health system – and raising treatment success rates.
The Health Ministry says that India’s innovative case‑finding strategy, which uses modern technology, decentralized services, and big‑scale community mobilisation, helped treatment coverage jump from 53 % in 2015 to over 92 % in 2024. In 2024, 26.18 lakh of the estimated 27 lakh TB patients were diagnosed.
“The number of missing cases has dropped from about 15 lakh in 2015 to less than one lakh today,” the ministry added.
India also achieved a treatment success rate of 90 % under the TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, beating the global average of 88 %. The country’s MDR‑TB cases did not rise significantly, and TB‑related deaths fell from 28 per lakh in 2015 to 21 per lakh in 2024.
Modi ends by reaffirming India’s commitment to a healthier, fitter country.
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