Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) TB Control Program, K-P Health Department and other donor agencies jointly organized a function to mark World TB Day at Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar on Friday.
The speakers said that TB is a treatable disease and if a person has a cough and fever for more than two weeks, he or she should go to the nearest TB center and get tested. They said that one TB patient can affect 10 to 15 healthy people, so creating TB awareness is a shared national cause of government agencies as well as all citizens.
The experts said that TB should not be considered as a stigma but it should be treated as a disease and attention should be paid to its treatment and prevention measures should be adopted.
The speakers said that TB is a contagious disease and it is possible to control but we all have to work together for this common national cause. Earlier, Dr Mudassir Shehzad, Director, Provincial TB Control Program K-P, while describing the status and statistics of TB in the country, said that Pakistan ranks fifth in the world in terms of TB patients.
He said that 55,000 people are infected with TB in Pakistan every year as 259 out of 100,000 people get infected with TB.
He said that the TB control program K-P has treated more than 65,000 patients since 2002.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 26th, 2022.
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