Speakers at a views-sharing meeting here have asked the teachers for creating mass social awareness against the curable disease of tuberculosis that kills 70,000-people annually in Bangladesh.
National Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Bangladesh (NATAB) organised the meeting on “Role of Teachers in Eradicating Tuberculosis” at Mahiganj Base Educare Centre in the city on Wednesday for the teachers.With Managing Director of Mahiganj Base Educare Centre Abdur Rahman Babu in the chair, former Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer Dr Shahadat Hosain Chowdhury attended the meeting as the chief guest. Assistant Director of the Social Service Department Mosaddekur Rahman, Project Manager of NATAB Abdal Hossain, teacher Zulfikar Ferdous, NATAB official Monwar Hossain and social worker Hasanuzzaman Bablu addressed as the special guests.Project Manager of NATAB Abdal Hossain presented keynote paper
highlighting the present national status of the silent killer disease and steps taken by the government and various organisations to free the country from tuberculosis.He also narrated the latest strategies for controlling tuberculosis and stressed for creating mass social awareness to accelerate detection of tuberculosis patients to bring them under cost-free treatments facilities.The speakers discussed on different reasons behind tuberculosis infection and said that the teachers could do a lot in eradicating tuberculosis as there are adequate facilities and medicine at grassroots levels for free treatment of the infected patients.The chief guest suggested the tuberculosis patients to complete their treatment doses at a stretch without intervals through adopting the cost- free Direct Observe Treatment Short Course methods and medicines available everywhere in the country. -BSS, Rangpur
