TB cases rise in NCD

TUBERCULOSIS is on the rise in the National Capital District and people must be very careful or they might contract it, National Capital District provincial health advisor Dr Gary Ouu said yesterday.
Ouu said NCD had recorded 5,000 TB cases out of the 18,000 cases recorded in the country.
He said that was a third of the TB cases in the country and it was alarming.
He said 60 multiple drug resistance cases had already been recorded in NCD.
Ouu said the number of TB cases would not fall any time soon because of the mobility of people in and out of NCD.
He urged people not to accommodate relatives in their homes over a long period of time.
“TB is highly infectious, if one person gets it, he passes it on to the next person, especially those within a confined area,” he said.
He appealed to the public to be careful especially with the ongoing problems of shortage of drug supply.
He said they planned to fight the spread of TB through prevention and not drugs.
Ouu challenged Director of curative health Dr Jerry Tanumei to produce positive statistics of TB and other diseases in NCD.