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Not many TB patients in Serbia
Belgrade,
24 March 2011
Minister of Health Zoran Stankovic stated today that Serbia records a lower rate of TB incidence than countries in the region and Europe.
Author:
Tanjug
Speaking at a press conference on the occasion of 24 March, World TB Day, Stankovic noted that thanks to the "TB Control in Serbia" project, the health care system has been bolstered through education of health workers, equipment for laboratories and pulmonology wards, procurement of medicines and establishment of an electronic system for collecting data on TB.
He said that during the course of the project, there was an active search for persons suffering from TB in risk population groups, which helped to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis in Serbia from 32 newly-affected patients in 100,000 people in 2005 to 23 newly-affected patients in 100,000 people in 2009.
Head of the World Health Office to Serbia Dorit Nitzan-Kaluski said that TB incidence rate in Europe has been on the decline since 2005 and the average rate in the region in 2009 stood at 36.8 registered cases in 100,000 people.
She stressed that Serbia managed to maintain a low level of incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and achieved good results of medical treatments.
President of the Serbian Committee for Tuberculosis Gordana Radosavljevic-Asic stressed that all attested TB medicines are available in Serbia, including drugs for treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
She said that there are few patients affected by this disease in Serbia, adding that all data on TB patients are collected through a computer network from each district in Serbia.
World TB Day is marked in remembrance of Robert Koch who discovered the bacillus which causes tuberculosis on 24 March 1882. This discovery opened the door for diagnostics and treatment of this disease.
He said that during the course of the project, there was an active search for persons suffering from TB in risk population groups, which helped to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis in Serbia from 32 newly-affected patients in 100,000 people in 2005 to 23 newly-affected patients in 100,000 people in 2009.
Head of the World Health Office to Serbia Dorit Nitzan-Kaluski said that TB incidence rate in Europe has been on the decline since 2005 and the average rate in the region in 2009 stood at 36.8 registered cases in 100,000 people.
She stressed that Serbia managed to maintain a low level of incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and achieved good results of medical treatments.
President of the Serbian Committee for Tuberculosis Gordana Radosavljevic-Asic stressed that all attested TB medicines are available in Serbia, including drugs for treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
She said that there are few patients affected by this disease in Serbia, adding that all data on TB patients are collected through a computer network from each district in Serbia.
World TB Day is marked in remembrance of Robert Koch who discovered the bacillus which causes tuberculosis on 24 March 1882. This discovery opened the door for diagnostics and treatment of this disease.
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