Make TB clinics more functional
Ruhal directs health officials
Health and Family Welfare Minister AFM Ruhal Haque yesterday directed the ministry officials to make tuberculosis clinics more functional to control the spread of the disease.
“During my field visits, it seemed to me that the TB clinics (tuberculosis clinics) are the most neglected. I requested the health DG (director general) and officials concerned to look into this matter,” he said.
Ruhal was addressing a roundtable, “National Tuberculosis Control Programme: Achievement and Responsibilities”, organised by Directorate General of Health Services, The Daily Ittefaq and Brac in the capital's Brac Centre Inn.
Emphasising on multi-sectoral plans to prevent the disease, Brac Director (health) Kaosar Afsana said controlling tuberculosis required poverty alleviation as the disease mainly affected the poor.
ICDDR, B Nutrition Programme Director Tahmeed Ahmed said lack of diagnosis causes improper projection of the actual child tuberculosis patient numbers and urged to make the diagnosis available in every upazila health centre.
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