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Vietnam defeats COVID-19, ends TB

“Vietnam defeats COVID, ends Tuberculosis” is the main theme set by the National Programme against Tuberculosis (TB) in response to the World TB Day 2021 (March 24).
Vietnam defeats COVID-19, ends TB ảnh 1Treating TB patient (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – “Vietnam defeats COVID, ends Tuberculosis” is the maintheme set by the National Programme against Tuberculosis (TB) in response tothe World TB Day 2021 (March 24).

Associate Professor and Doctor Nguyen Viet Nhung, Directorof the National Lung Hospital and head of the programme, said that the theme ofthe World TB Day 2021 – “The clock is ticking” – conveys a message that theworld is running out of time to act on the commitments to end TB.

According to the World Health Organisation, TB remains theworld’s deadliest infectious killer. Each day, over 4,000 people lose theirlives to TB and close to 30,000 people fall ill with this preventable andcurable disease.

According to a WTO report in 2020, about 170,000 new casesare detected in Vietnam each year, of whom 70 percent are in working age.

Vietnam defeats COVID-19, ends TB ảnh 2Associate Professor and Doctor Nguyen Viet Nhung, Director of the National Lung Hospital (Photo: VNA)
Last year, the number of new cases detected decreased by 3.1percent year-on-year.

Although the figure is quite small compared with the decreaserate of 20 percent globally, Vietnamese people are more aware of the preventionand control of respiratory infectious diseases.

The political system also has sufficient information aboutthe role of the health sector in socio-economic development as well as measuresto address respiratory infectious diseases.

This is a chance for Vietnam to put an end to TB, Nhungadded./.
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