Tuberculosis is a serious disease,but curable

Tuberculosis (TB) is dangerous, but curable malady. Tuberculosis is a transferable disease whose germs are spread in the air and affect the lungs. Dr.Rehman Afridi while speaking on the issue of TB at a one-day workshop arranged for the tribal journalists at Peshawar Emerald Guest House highlighted that Pakistan was on the eight number in this disease through out the world.

Dr. Rehman said that it was their target to reach and find out seventy percent patients of TB in FATA to treat them without any cost. He said that medicine for TB patients were free of cost. More than thirty diagnostic centers have bee established in the tribal areas where any suspected of TB can go and check his TB for free, Rehman said. Treatment centers are also available in the whole of FATA where doctors were giving free services to treat the TB patients, he added. He said, “TB treatment is long which take maximum eight months, but it is completely curable.”

He urged upon the tribal journalists to highlight tuberculosis in the print and electronic media as a great and alarming menace. Tribal journalists will be properly trained to highlight TB and other diseases in the media to beware the poor and backward people of the tribal areas, the DR. said. He said that TB control program was being run in the entire FATA to control this disease. At the end he said that their department was in dire need of facilities. A large number of tribal journalists took part in this workshop. The tribal journalists advised that if tribal journalists are properly trained and equipped, they can better serve the community to inform them of various maladies.