Over 3,300 Moldovans fall sick with tuberculosis in 2017

13:43 | 15.03.2018 Category: Social

Chisinau, 15 March /MOLDPRES/ - About 3,360 Moldovans fell sick with tuberculosis in 2017, - by 2018 less against the year before. The leadership of the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry has made public the data at hearings organized by the parliamentary commission for social protection, health and family.

During discussions on parliamentary platform, Health, Labour and Social Protection Minister Svetlana Cebotari said that the prevention and control of tuberculosis was one of the priority problems of the health system and the control of this disease was a strategic goal of national interest.

“Presently, the fifth national tuberculosis control programme for 2016-2020 is carried out in Moldova and it is aimed at reducing the weight of TB in the country, including the drug-resistant tuberculosis, through providing universal access to services of prevention, diagnosis and quality treatment and applying strategic patient-centered interventions,” the minister stressed.

In the context, State Secretary Aliona Serbulenco unveiled the achievements and prospects in the sector of TB prevention in Moldova. She noted that, in the last years, a tendency of stabilization of the tuberculosis-related epidemiological situation had been recorded in Moldova.

“Till 2020, efforts will be made to ensure universal access to the early diagnosis of all forms of tuberculosis, universal access to treatment through patient-centered approach, to ensure measures of prophylaxis and control of tuberculosis and maintaining an at least 95-per cent rate of vaccination with the anti-TB vaccine Bacillus Calmette–Guérin at birth,” Serbulenco said.

In last mid-January, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria informed that it would provide Moldova with two grants worth 15.8 million euros to reduce the morbidity through tuberculosis and AIDS.

Data by the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry shows that 380 deaths of tuberculosis were registered in 2016.

According to data put out by the World Health Organization, although a 22-per cent drop in the number of deaths of TB is recorded worldwide, this disease remains one of the first ten reasons for deceases in the world.

(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)

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