July 15, 2011 : Islamabad
The government has established five reference laboratories in the country to ensure best diagnostic and treatment facilities for tuberculosis patients. According to official sources, around 982 microscopy centres are working throughout the country to provide free of cost diagnostic facility of tuberculosis.
They said more than 700,000 tuberculosis patients had been provided free treatment facilities while 100 per cent coverage of WHO-recommended treatment strategy for detection and treatment known as Directly Observed Treatment has been achieved in the country. They said external quality assurance for sputum microscopy was implemented in 40 districts of the country while training and health education materials had been developed with training of all health care providers.
They said TB was an infectious bacterial disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affected the lungs.
They added the disease was transmitted from person to person via droplets from the throat and lungs of people with the active respiratory disease. They said in healthy people, infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis often caused no symptoms, since the person’s immune system acted to wall off the bacteria.
They said the symptoms of active TB of the lung were coughing, sometimes with sputum or blood, chest pains, weakness, weight loss, fever and night sweats. They added tuberculosis was treatable with a six-month course of antibiotics.
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