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Two People Succumbs to TB for Every Three Hours in Nepal
November 29, 2007 at 6:12 PM
General Health News
According to Nepal Anti-TB Association (NATA), an NGO working to create awareness about the killer disease, between 5,000-7,000 people die of TB every year.
The toll worldwide is 1.6 million, with women and children being the worst affected.
According to the World Health Organisation, every year nearly 2.8 million women are diagnosed with TB with 70,000 succumbing to it.
Almost 250,000 children worldwide die annually due to the killer disease.
It is estimated that at present there are about 90,000 patients in Nepal. However, their number is expected to grow by 40,000 every year.
"One infected person can spread the disease to 10-15 persons more," warned Pushpa Malla, director at the National Tuberculosis Centre in Nepal.
Though the DOTS (directly observed treatment service) Plus system has helped Nepal combat the disease to some extent, the alarming development is the detection of a drug-resistant strain for the first time in the Himalayan nation.
Nepal's state media Thursday said recently five patients were detected with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR), one of whom had died of the strain.
According to Malla, Nepal has no drug to combat XDR TB. The government, she said, was in the process of bringing in medicines through World Health Organisation's (WHO) Global Drugs facilities.
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