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Lack of awareness leaves girls more vulnerable

World Tuberculosis Day
3/24/2017
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report  

Jammu, Mar 23: Tuberculosis (TB) cases have been witnessed at an alarming increase in Jammu and Kashmir in last few years due to lack of awareness, constraint faced in diagnosis, inadequate treatment equipment and social stigma. Moreover, the girls of 5-14 years of age are more affected with this infection in comparison with boys of same age group.
Pertinently, WHO estimates child TB patients cover 10 per cent of the total diagnosed worldwide. As per official data, nearly 799 patients died and 28,684 cases were detected in the state for last three years. Highest TB deaths have been reported in year 2014, when 290 people died, while in 2015 and 2016 the death toll with TB was 279 and 230 respectively.
The highest TB deaths were reported in Udhampur and Kathua districts where 157 people each died since 2014. Srinagar was on third position with 91 TB deaths and North Kashmir's Baramulla district was fourth in the list with total 78 deaths, while 66 deaths have been reported from most populated Jammu district. With 6 and 16 deaths respectively in Kargil and Leh districts remained at bottom in the list, official data stated.
"In year 2014, 10443 cases of TB were detected and 10264 out of them were treated successfully, in 2015, 9972 cases were detected and 9748 was treated while in 2016- 8269 cases of TB were detected and 8009 was treated," it also stated.
Assistant Professor Dr Rahul Gupta said first the people find it difficult to accept that they have TB and somehow when they realize, some of them skip drugs or leave the treatment midway which can lead to multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) or in the worst case, even death.

"If patients cooperate, they will certainly be relieved of the disease within a stipulated time, "he added.

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