2.24 lakh TB patients detected in 2016
At least 2.24 lakh tuberculosis (TB) patients were detected in 2016, which is four percent higher than that of the previous year, according to the National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP).
The number of TB cases was 223,922 last year, which was 209,438 in 2015, health experts said at a press conference today on the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day to be observed tomorrow.
TB patients in Bangladesh were 3.60 lakh last year, Dr Rouseli Haq, line director of the NTP under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said referring to the data of the World Health Organisation (WHO). However, some 1.3 lakh of those remain unidentified.
The press conference was organised by the NTP, BRAC and other partner NGOs at Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka.
The WHO says Bangladesh is one of the world's 30 high burden countries for TB, which causes 45 deaths a year per lakh in Bangladesh.
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