Gandhinagar, March 23 -- Gujarat is rapidly closing in on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a Tuberculosis-Free India, achieving an impressive 94 per cent of the ambitious TB registration and treatment targets set by NITI Aayog, cementing its status as a national frontrunner in disease eradication.

Driven by the leadership of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, the state has hit remarkable milestones in the fight against TB, a press release said.

The scale of this healthcare triumph is detailed in fresh clinical data released by the Gujarat Health Department.

Against a formidable target of identifying 1,40,000 TB cases, the state successfully tracked down and registered 1,31,801 individuals. But the focus did not stop at detection, ...