Identification of unknown TB patients stressed

Bhaktapur, Mar. 17 (RSS): A meeting comprising representatives of teachers' organisations, intellectuals and physicians was held here on Saturday in connection with observing the 121st World Tuberculosis Day on March 24 in a grand manner.

The meeting was chaired by Bishnu Gopal Shrestha, the chief coordinator of the World Tuberculosis Day Coordination and Management Committee.

At the meeting, Director General of the Department of Health Services Dr. B.D. Chataut expressed the hope that this year's World Tuberculosis Day will help in identifying unknown tuberculosis patients and spreading the message that there is free medicines for them.

Whereas a tuberculosis patient had to take medicines for up to two years in the past, now he is required to take medicines for only eight months under the dots regimen, he added.

Chief coordinator of the World TB Day Coordination and Management Committee Bishnu Gopal Shrestha requested for maximum cooperation from the teachers, intellectuals, physicians and all the citizens in making the World Tuberculosis Day successful by carrying out various awareness and informative programmes.

Director of the National Tuberculosis Centre and member-secretary of the World Tuberculosis Day main programme committee Dr. Dirgha Singh Bom stressed the need for creating mass awareness that tuberculosis can be cured and that people should not hide the disease.

Director of the Central Regional Education Directorate Birendra Umar Singh called upon all the conscious and educated persons across the Kingdom to work collectively in the fight against TB.

Bhaktapur district education officer Mrs. Maya Sitaula, Lalitpur district education officer Baliram Prasad Singh and principal of the Anandakuti Vidyashram High School Ratna Bahadur Bajracharya said that the tendency to hide the disease would be wiped away by spreading the message that tuberculosis is curable.

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