DUHS seminar: Counselling sessions for TB patients
Speakers say Pakistan had the fifth highest rate of TB in the world.
KARACHI:
Medical experts have recommended mandatory counseling sessions for all tuberculosis (TB) patients in the country. In their presentations at a seminar organised by Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) on World TB Control and Prevention Day, they said that the medical community needed to realise their responsibility towards public education about prevention, diagnosis and treatment of TB. Speakers on the occasion said that Pakistan had the fifth highest rate of TB in the world and fourth highest multi-drug resistant (MDR) variety of the ailment. Zonal coordinator of Sindh TB Control Programme, Dr S Ghulam Abbas Naqvi warned that the incomplete treatment of TB makes it the most dangerous variant to MDR TB. Vice Chancellor, DUHS, Professor Dr M Umar Farooq said that early detection and treatment can save the life of TB patients. The seminar was also addressed by Dr Ghulam Murtaza, Dr Fehmina Arif, Dr Nazish Masood, Dr Ismat Ara, Dr Khalid Shafi and others.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 26th, 2014.
Medical experts have recommended mandatory counseling sessions for all tuberculosis (TB) patients in the country. In their presentations at a seminar organised by Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) on World TB Control and Prevention Day, they said that the medical community needed to realise their responsibility towards public education about prevention, diagnosis and treatment of TB. Speakers on the occasion said that Pakistan had the fifth highest rate of TB in the world and fourth highest multi-drug resistant (MDR) variety of the ailment. Zonal coordinator of Sindh TB Control Programme, Dr S Ghulam Abbas Naqvi warned that the incomplete treatment of TB makes it the most dangerous variant to MDR TB. Vice Chancellor, DUHS, Professor Dr M Umar Farooq said that early detection and treatment can save the life of TB patients. The seminar was also addressed by Dr Ghulam Murtaza, Dr Fehmina Arif, Dr Nazish Masood, Dr Ismat Ara, Dr Khalid Shafi and others.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 26th, 2014.