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The other initiative – EQUIP – a two-year programme which engaged private practitioners, found that an interface agency was required to encourage private practitioners to join hands with the government. (From left) Nalini Krishnan, director, REACH; Darez Ahamed, director, National Rural Health Mission; J.
Radhakrishnan, Health Secretary; and P.R. REACH director Nalini Krishnan said the project was just a model and must be scaled up. REACH launched an initiative in 2012 to engage private practitioners and pharmacists in the city in treating TB. He was addressing a gathering of pharmacists and private medical practitioners at an event organised by non-governmental organisation REACH working to eliminate TB in the city..