“In Kyrgyzstan, mortality from tuberculosis decreased by 2 times over the past 10 years. The director general of the National Center for Phthisiology Avtandil Alisherov reported today to 24.kg news agency.
According to him, in 2010 this rate was 16 cases per 100 thousand population. “Today it is down to eight cases. Reduction in mortality is a litmus test of our doctors and the provision of drugs. Thanks to assistance of international donor organizations newly diagnosed patients are fully provided with medicines,” said Avtandil Alisherov.
He added that 5.5 thousand cases of tuberculosis are registered annually in the country. “700 of them are due to children and teenagers, nearly all the rest - on the working population, people aged 17 to 50 years. If we had, for example, the economy as in Denmark or in the Netherlands, achievement rates for tuberculosis control would be much higher. But the most important thing is that we took control of the situation with TB in the country,” said Avtandil Alisherov.
By Anastasia Bengard
24.kg news agency