Min of Public Health determined to stop tuberculosis infections in 20 years



BANGKOK, 24 March 2016 (NNT)-The Ministry of Public Health is determined to stop tuberculosis in Thailand over the next 20 years. The goal was announced to coincide with World Tuberculosis Day observed each year on March 24th.

Department of Disease Control Director, General Dr. Amnuay Kajeena and related agencies is to host an event to make awards to medical units that have demonstrated outstanding care for patients with tuberculosis.

He added that tuberculosis is a major problem in Thailand. Around 120,000 new patients with the disease have been recorded so far. Of this number, only 70,000 have been registered for medical treatment.

In addition, 2,200 other patients have developed resistance to drugs. The Ministry of Public Health is therefore, planning a campaign to reduce the number of infections in two decades.


-- NNT 2016-03-24

.....sounds like an epidemic......

.....sounds like an epidemic......

It is,i read some time ago that the WHO did tests on customers in many supermarkets in and around BKK and found on average two people in each with open TB.

My wife contracted TB, where we don't know but as we don't go out much except for shopping in the Supermarket i suspect it was there.

Compulsory free treatment would help. We have insurance so she was treated at a private hospital after trying the state hospital which didn't seem to be doing any good, The doctor at the private hospital shook his head at the medicine she had been taking and said,'We can do better than that'' The cost was however high and he said he would arrange with the insurance that they would pay directly without us paying up front,an injection a day for many months can be disastrous for your wallet. Strangely, they didn't test me or the children. The cure took about 7 months.

.....sounds like an epidemic......

It is,i read some time ago that the WHO did tests on customers in many supermarkets in and around BKK and found on average two people in each with open TB.

My wife contracted TB, where we don't know but as we don't go out much except for shopping in the Supermarket i suspect it was there.

Compulsory free treatment would help. We have insurance so she was treated at a private hospital after trying the state hospital which didn't seem to be doing any good, The doctor at the private hospital shook his head at the medicine she had been taking and said,'We can do better than that'' The cost was however high and he said he would arrange with the insurance that they would pay directly without us paying up front,an injection a day for many months can be disastrous for your wallet. Strangely, they didn't test me or the children. The cure took about 7 months.

Supermarkets and also from having sex with men who have the disease. Better hire a Private Investigator. Or do not let her go shopping anymore.

Do the numbers being bandied around reflect those whose tests resulted in positive as to exposure to tb or the indiviual actually having tb? Most people who have spent time in asia test positive , but this indicates they have been exposed, not that they are infected.

To reduce the number of infections in 2 decades is much more realistic in a medical goal than ''stopping /eliminating'' tb in the next 20 years

Why don't they just vaccinate in schools like used to happen in uk - measles mumps rubella when baby - TB jab about 12 at school - not sure why it will take 20 years - they the government crow about hub of treatment but no money for the basic vaccines and in the long run cheaper for the admin if they did now but Thailand being Thailand always tomorrow

Why so long? Surely they can do this along the same lines as the cure for Ebola they announced last year.

.....sounds like an epidemic......

It is,i read some time ago that the WHO did tests on customers in many supermarkets in and around BKK and found on average two people in each with open TB.

My wife contracted TB, where we don't know but as we don't go out much except for shopping in the Supermarket i suspect it was there.

Compulsory free treatment would help. We have insurance so she was treated at a private hospital after trying the state hospital which didn't seem to be doing any good, The doctor at the private hospital shook his head at the medicine she had been taking and said,'We can do better than that'' The cost was however high and he said he would arrange with the insurance that they would pay directly without us paying up front,an injection a day for many months can be disastrous for your wallet. Strangely, they didn't test me or the children. The cure took about 7 months.

Supermarkets and also from having sex with men who have the disease. Better hire a Private Investigator. Or do not let her go shopping anymore.

A tasteless remark at best