world tuberclusosis day
The World Tuberculosis Day, which is celebrated on March 24 every year, is being marked in Nepal today with the slogan ‘Commitment for Quality and Accessible Service: Global Unity for Tuberculosis-free World’.
Director at the National Tuberculosis Control and Prevention Centre, Thimi Dr Rajendra Panta said that 35,735 TB patients have been registered in the DOTS programme of the Nepal government during the fiscal year 2068-69 BS and among them 15,057 have been detected with TB infection.
Informing that 90 per cent of the TB patients were cured during the year, he further said still more than 9,000 TB patients are outside the reach of health facilities.
According to a survey conducted in 2011 BS, 2.2 per cent of total TB patients are detected with primary DR TB while 15.4 per cent have secondary DR TB in Nepal.
The day is being marked with different sets of programme to impart a message that ‘TB could be prevented with the regular intake of medicine’ and eliminate superstitious beliefs on tuberculosis, he added.
