TB medicine produced at home

Staff Reporter :
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday said that medicines of Tuberculosis (TB) disease are being produced in the country and it be exporeted abroad.
The minister said that the government has managed to provide good medical treatment facilities to TB patients.
The budget amount of the medical facilities also will be increased, he added.
The minister said it while addressing joint monitoring mission (JMM) on TB treatment in a hotel in the capital.
“The prevalence of TB germs has been continuing since the beginning of the planet. About three lakh people infected with the disease every year and numbers are dead. But the infection has been decreased,” the minister said. He said that the deaths from the disease also reduced.
“In 2015, about 70 thousand died from TB infection, but the fatalities were only for 40 thousand in recent years,” the minister said. He said that the fatalities rate is comparatively more than other countries as the density of population is additional here.
Zahid Maleque said the medical treatment facilities of the TB patients in our country are well.
There are huge amenities of screening of the disease.
There are some stigmas over TB in the country, but the people are gradually reducing those.
“People are now going to medical centers avoiding superstitions,” the minister said.
They are now going to hospitals in number and are taking medical treatment in the case of TB infection.
“About 85 to 90 pc TB patients are now being recovered by taking medical treatment from hospitals. We want all of the patients have to come to hospitals. There are sufficient arrangements of rendering medical services for them,” the minister said.
He said that the health ministry has readied to render medical services to the people after reducing the risks of Covid-19 by vaccinating about 90 pc of the people in the country.
Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services, presided over the programme. The DG asked all to work together for zero TB infection by the year 2030.