Call to bring all undetected TB patients under treatment

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a post-rally discussion yesterday unequivocally called for a concerted effort to bring all the undetected tuberculosis patients under proper treatment for building a TB free society, reports BSS. They said TB is no more a killer disease as early detection, proper and timely diagnosis and treatment and preventive measures are found effective in fighting the disease. Offices of Divisional Director of Health and Civil Surgeon, Chest Disease Hospital and Rajshahi City Corporation jointly organised the rally and the meeting held at Luxmipur crossing in Rajshahi city to mark the World Tuberculosis Day-2017.
‘Unite to End TB’ was the main theme of the day.
Various other organisations like Damien Foundation, Tilottoma, Population ‘Services and Training Center (PSTC), BRAC, FPAB, NATAB and Ashakta Punarbashan Sangstha (APOSH) supported the anti-TB programmes.
Divisional Director of Health Dr Ashish Kumar Shaha, Assistant Director (Disease Control) Dr Ismat Ara, Superintendent of Chest Disease Hospital Dr Amir Hossain, Project Director of Damien Foundation Arif Iftikhar Mannan and its Monitoring Officer Toslim Uddin and Divisional TB Expert Dr Saiful Islam spoke on the occasion.
Dr Ashish Kumar Shaha said the existing challenges of Multi Drug Resistance (MDR) tuberculosis should be faced collectively as its consequences are very dangerous.
He said there is no alternative to concerted efforts to check the
contagious disease as all the MDR TB patients always breed more other identical category of patients through quick transmission. TB is an infectious disease that usually spreads out through breathing of the affected patients.
He underscored the need for conducting massive awareness and searching programmes to detect the TB in the slum and char areas of the district without further delay. It is no more a deadly disease and it is fully cured if the affected patients take proper treatment, he said.
He said the government is determined to achieve success in TB control through implementing the Directly Observed Treatment strategy and with enormous efforts of all the stakeholders GO and NGOs, TB diagnostic and treatment services now available throughout the country.
Terming the co-infection of TB and HIV as severe to any human body, he laid stress on a comprehensive human resource along with capacity development plan to deal with TB-HIV co- infection at different levels, layers and systems.Marking the day, a rally was brought out and that paraded some of the city streets aiming at creating awareness about the disease and its social and family burden.

Call to bring all undetected TB patients under treatment

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a post-rally discussion yesterday unequivocally called for a concerted effort to bring all the undetected tuberculosis patients under proper treatment for building a TB free society, reports BSS. They said TB is no more a killer disease as early detection, proper and timely diagnosis and treatment and preventive measures are found effective in fighting the disease. Offices of Divisional Director of Health and Civil Surgeon, Chest Disease Hospital and Rajshahi City Corporation jointly organised the rally and the meeting held at Luxmipur crossing in Rajshahi city to mark the World Tuberculosis Day-2017. Unite to End TB was the main theme of the day. Various other organisations like Damien Foundation, Tilottoma, Population Services and Training Center (PSTC), BRAC, FPAB, NATAB and Ashakta Punarbashan Sangstha (APOSH) supported the anti-TB programmes. Divisional Director of Health Dr Ashish Kumar Shaha, Assistant Director (Disease Control) Dr Ismat Ara, Superintendent of Chest Disease Hospital Dr Amir Hossain, Project Director of Damien Foundation Arif Iftikhar Mannan and its Monitoring Officer Toslim Uddin and Divisional TB Expert Dr Saiful Islam spoke on the occasion. Dr Ashish Kumar Shaha said the existing challenges of Multi Drug Resistance (MDR) tuberculosis should be faced collectively as its consequences are very dangerous. He said there is no alternative to concerted efforts to check the contagious disease as all the MDR TB patients always breed more other identical category of patients through quick transmission. TB is an infectious disease that usually spreads out through breathing of the affected patients. He underscored the need for conducting massive awareness and searching programmes to detect the TB in the slum and char areas of the district without further delay. It is no more a deadly disease and it is fully cured if the affected patients take proper treatment, he said. He said the government is determined to achieve success in TB control through implementing the Directly Observed Treatment strategy and with enormous efforts of all the stakeholders GO and NGOs, TB diagnostic and treatment services now available throughout the country. Terming the co-infection of TB and HIV as severe to any human body, he laid stress on a comprehensive human resource along with capacity development plan to deal with TB-HIV co- infection at different levels, layers and systems.Marking the day, a rally was brought out and that paraded some of the city streets aiming at creating awareness about the disease and its social and family burden.