Campaign: Prisoners told how to prevent TB

Pamphlets were distributed among 3,535 prisoners at Central Jail, Kot Lakhpat along with free prevention kits.

LAHORE: Pamphlets were distributed among the 3,535 prisoners at Central Jail, Kot Lakhpat along with free of cost prevention kits on Thursday.

The distribution of the kits and pamphlets was part of a comprehensive tuberculosis (TB) awareness campaign that has been launched for the prisoners.

Senior Superintendent Jail Mohsin Rafiq Chaudhry said that TB Programme Director for Punjab Dr Darakhshanda Badar had also delivered a lecture on the lung disease.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 29^th, 2013.