The donor is likely to bow out by August 2015. STOCK IMAGE
In a bid to control a possible crisis, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has allocated Rs200 million for the ongoing tuberculosis (TB) control programme, official sources told The Express Tribune.
German government-owned development bank Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) has been financing the project with around €14million provided in the last ten years. The donor is likely to bow out by August 2015. Officials said KfW will now resort to indirect funding only.
Programme director Dr Obaid Hussain confirmed the new allocation. “The PC-1 has been approved for a three-year term which will continue until 2017,” he told The Express Tribune, adding the federal TB control programme has also been assisting the K-P initiative.
In Swat, at the press club, Saidu Medical College department of medicine head Dr Aziz Ahmad said pre-emptive measures can help patients recover from the disease at a very early stage.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 25th, 2015.
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