The World Tuberculosis Day Observation Disclosed 15,000 TB Patients in Sri Lanka

The World Tuberculosis Day was marked this year on Friday, 24^th March 2017 . Consultant Chest Physician at the Polonnaruwa Hospital Dr. Nandika Harischandra addressing  the event said, that More than 10,000 persons are diagnosed with TB in the country every year and in addition there are about 5,000 patients at large and not receiving treatment. As of the day, there were more than 15,000 Tuberculosis patients in the country.

Further he said, AIDS and TB were communicable diseases that caused the largest number of deaths in the world and that a large number of people in the developing countries die of TB every year although it was curable if treatment was taken properly.  But what  we need is  public awareness  for the prevention of the TB. World Health Organisation considered Sri Lanka as a country where TB was not yet eradicated.