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Raise mass awareness to combat TB

Speakers tell roundtable

Staff Correspondent
Speaker at a roundtable yesterday called for raising mass awareness to fight tuberculosis (TB), which is a major public health problem and leadingcauseofadult mortality.
They also stressed the need for active coordination between the efforts of government and NGOs to bring harmony in TB control programme.
The roundtable tilted ‘Tuberculosis control: Present situation and future programme' was organised jointly by the Prothom Alo and Brae at the newspaper's office in the city.
Dr Akramul Islam presented the keynote paper.
The discussants said most of the rural people consider TB as a curse and do not know that it is a curable disease.
"Diagnosis ofTB and its treatment is not difficult but it is hard to complete the full course of the treatment as it is a lengthy pro-cess," said Prof MA Faiz, director
general of health services.
He said it would be difficult to achieve the target of TB control programme fixed for 2015.
Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, project coordinator of Gonoshasthya Nagar Hospital, saidTB is related to nutrition.
"Poor people are the main victims of TB as they suffer from malnutrition," he added.
Prof AKM Shamsul Haq, former president of Chest and Heart Association, said TB control programme started in this region in 1965 but the disease is still a major health problem.
He said WHO ranks Bangladesh fifth among the world's 22 high-burdenTB countries.
He stressed the need for unified and coordinated efforts to elimi-nateTB.
Prof Pravat Chandra Barua said people's awareness is important to fightTB.
Faruq Ahmed, director of Brae Health Programme, said poor
people are die main victims ofTB which poses a serious direat to their livelihood.
Prof ARM Lutful Kabir said many people have the intention of hidingTB when they are attacked.
He said diagnosis of children's TB is sometimes ignored and as a result it becomes critical.
Khurshid Alam Haider, NPO of TB Management at World Health Organisation, Asif Mujtaba Mahmud, associate professor of National Chest Disease Institute and Hospital (N1DCH), Prof MD Mustafizur Rahman, director of NIDCH, Shakhawat Hossein, secretary general of National Anti-TB Association of Bangladesh (Natab), Dr K Zaman, a scientist at ICDDR.B, Wahida Banu, chairperson of Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum, Dr Selima Rahman, director (health) of RDRS Bangladesh, Farid Hossein, bureau chief of Associated Press, and Dr Sabera Sultana, national consultant of WHO, also spoke.