Indian Red Cross Society, Karnataka State Branch Started T B Control Project- India in January – 2009 Funded by USAID and UK aid through IFRC in association with Tuberculosis Association of India. Control T B Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of India, WHO and IRCS. Indian Red Cross Society, NHQ has allotted TB Project to Karnataka State Branch and is operating in Bengaluru Urban, Mandya and Tumkur Districts.
During 2020 totally 294 TB Patients were helped with nutrition food 288 Patients were treated successfully.
World Tuberculosis Day was observed on 24th March 2020 and drama was enacted on TB awareness a Jaatha was also organized on this occasion.