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Awareness campaign to control TB

Staff Reporter

KANNUR: A public campaign to create awareness about tuberculosis (TB) will be conducted on March 24 by the District Tuberculosis Control Society through its five units in the district.

District TB Officer Sajeevkumar told a press conference here on Thursday that the campaign was being organised to increase the rate of detection of TB patients as it was estimated that 200 people per population of one lakh in the country were dying every year of TB. The country was also estimated to have 5,000 new TB patients every year, he said.

Dr. Sajeevkumar said that the campaign was also aimed at popularising the Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS), which was proved an effective method of treatment of TB patients because it ensured supervision. `DOTS for all and all for DOTS' was the motto of the TB control campaign this year, he said.

The society units at Kannur, Thalassery, Payyannur, Koothuparamba and Iritty would organise various awareness programmes, he said.

He said that lack of awareness of the DOTS treatment system was the major hurdle to the efforts to detect more TB cases.

A bike rally would be held here at 10 a.m. on Friday in connection with the campaign. An awareness rally would be held at Thalassery.

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