Ronald Fabella, TB advisor of the DOH disease prevention and control bureau, stressed the need to find undiagnosed TB patients and put them on treatment to be able to curb the transmission of this illness affecting nearly a million Filipinos. |kdevillaINQ
After Gamba had herself checked at Caloocan City Medical Center, her chest X-ray results found her positive for TB.
Gamba was then enrolled in a six-month treatment regimen, with medical checkups in between, which were all covered by the government. “Almost everything was free … the only thing I paid for was the X-ray test,” she said. In a Kapihan session on Friday, Ronald Fabella, TB advisor of the DOH disease prevention and control bureau, stressed the need to find undiagnosed TB patients and put them on treatment to be able to curb the transmission of this illness affecting nearly a million Filipinos.Citing the World Health Organization’s Global Tuberculosis Report released in October last year, Fabella said that approximately 741,000 Filipinos developed active tuberculosis disease in 2021.
“The good news is … figures are catching up. In 2022, we saw that more TB cases are finally being identified. Hopefully, [numbers] improve even more until we find the [more than] 700,000 cases,” Fabella told reporters.
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