Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The TB campaign was co-organized by the Somali National Olympic Committee, the Global Fund and World Health Organization to raise awareness of the curable disease.
Global Fund coordinator for south-central Somalia Abokar Ali Hilowle told reporters on Tuesday that more tuberculosis treatment centers need to be opened in Somalia so that the country may keep up with the global target of eradicating tuberculoses by the year 2015.
“Currently we have 21,746 tuberculosis cases in Somalia and we hope that there will be a big decrease in that number in the upcoming years,” he said.
He called on sick people to go regularly to the tuberculosis treatment centres so that the target of eliminating tuberculoses in Somalia can be reached.
Source: APA, Mar 24, 2009