About 400,000 People in Pakistan Have TB, Health Official Says
About 400,000 people in Pakistan have tuberculosis, and about 3,000 of the country's TB patients are in the city of Hyderabad, Abdul Samad Sheikh, president of the Anti-TB Association of Hyderabad, said Monday at a seminar in the city, The News reports.
According to Sheikh, the TB association successfully has treated more than 100,000 TB patients in the past 40 years. He added that both government-run and private hospitals supply treatments for the disease. Sheikh during the seminar also spoke about the causes of TB and the history of the disease. Several additional health officials spoke during the seminar, The News reports (The News, 2/10).
