>>>>>>>>According to the President of the Nigeria Thoracic Society (NTS), Prof Etete Peters, about one in three people with TB are never diagnosed and this is a
source for concern. He stated that when this happens, they are left untreated and will continue to spread the disease in the community. He noted that tuberculosis is the single commonest infectious disease worldwide
with an estimated 9 million cases and 1.5million deaths annually while a
third of the world's population is infected with mycobacterium
tuberculosis with new infection every second, while saying that of the estimated 9 million cases worldwide in 2013,
only 5.7 million were reported to various national TB programme.
Country director of the Royal Dutch TB Foundation (KNCV), Dr Mustapha Gidado,
said on Thursday that “There are free
drugs at facilities provided by the federal ministry of health under
support of partners but we are not getting good utilisation of those
facilities, and therefore Nigeria is not diagnosing and not detecting
enough number of TB patients". "If we keep managing those coming to
hospital, we will never control TB, we are like mopping the
kitchen floor when the tap is on but if we are going to control TB, we need
to run off the tap.” said Gidado.
Peters called for a collaborative measures against this disease, pointing that those whose
diagnosis were missed, or were not reported, and they constitute the
pool for new infections and diseases especially in Nigeria. He also stated that NTS is ready to collaborate with the government in looking for
innovative control approaches that would reduce the ravaging effect of
the disease, ensuring a TB free country and work force.
Sources: http://allafrica.com
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng
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