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Tuberculosis kills 68,000 Pakistanis every year
Sunday March 20, 2011 12:39:08 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: Tuberculosis kills 68,000 people in Pakistan every year as an
untreated patient transfers the disease to 10-15 people, a senior
official said.
The country has 700,000 tuberculosis patients now, Hashim Raza Zaidi,
the secretary of health, said at an event in Karachi on the occasion
of World Tuberculosis Day Saturday.
Zaidi said that in Sindh province alone, 1,000 treatment centres and
272 diagnostic centres had been set up to provide free medicines.
A tuberculosis control programme has set up by the government in
Sindh at a cost of Rs.213 million, the Daily Times reported.
Masood Hameed Khan, vice chancellor of the Dow University of Health
Sciences, which conducted the programme, said negligence,
carelessness and lack of awareness about tuberculosis leads to a
very complicated form of the disease known as "Multi Drug
Resistant-Tuberculosis".
He said the university would soon start a web-based training
programme for doctors treating tuberculosis patients.
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