{"id":40653,"date":"2014-03-24T19:58:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=40653"},"modified":"2014-03-24T19:58:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:58:51","slug":"tuberculosis-eight-diagnosis-treatment-centers-working-chitral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2014\/03\/24\/tuberculosis-eight-diagnosis-treatment-centers-working-chitral\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberculosis: Eight Diagnosis and Treatment Centers working in Chitral"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TB is a major disease, although curable, responsible for the death of thousands of people every year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gul Hammad Farooqi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chitral, March 24:<\/strong> Like other parts of the country world TB day was\u00a0commemorated in Chitral by district TB control officer in\u00a0collaboration with District health officer and relief international.<\/p>\n

Additional Deputy Commissioner Abdul Ghaffar was chief guest on the\u00a0occasion while the ceremony was presided over by Dr. Noorul Islam MS\u00a0of DHQ Hospital Chitral. The speakers highlighted TB diseases and\u00a0termed that this is curable disease which can cover within 6 months\u00a0continue treatment. They said that that combined efforts can eradicate\u00a0TB disease like polio as Chitral has been polio free district.<\/p>\n

\"Participants<\/a>
Participants included health practitioners and social activists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Saad Maluk district TB control officer briefed the stakeholders\u00a0regarding TB disease and its treatment. He said that there are 8\u00a0diagnoses and treatment centers in Chitral where sputum etc test if\u00a0free of cost and providing free treatment to TB patients. He said that\u00a0some 3 million people affecting by TB in Pakistan every year.<\/p>\n

Dr. Israrullah DHO, Maulana Sher Aziz Ameer Jamat Islami, Dr. Gulzar\u00a0Ahmad children specialist, Dr Noorul Islam, Dr. Muhammad Tayyab\u00a0District Program Manager of Relief International, Dr. Muhammad\u00a0Nazir Manger clinical AKHS Chitral, Abdul Ghaffar additional Deputy\u00a0commissioner and other spoke on the occasion. The speakers also\u00a0hailed contribution and services of non government organizations\u00a0regarding providing health facilities to public. They said that social\u00a0mobilization campaign is must for eradicating TB and other infectious\u00a0diseases from Chitral as well as from the country.<\/p>\n

Dr. Gulzar said that children and old age people are most vulnerable\u00a0and can quickly affect by TB diseases. This is an opportunist disease\u00a0and attack on a person when is immunity power is weak. The speakers\u00a0stressed upon the participants to follow health and hygienic\u00a0principles and must be cleanliness to stop TB from spreading.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gul Hammad Farooqi Chitral, March 24: Like other parts of the country world TB day was\u00a0commemorated in Chitral by district TB control officer in\u00a0collaboration with District health officer and relief international. Additional Deputy Commissioner Abdul Ghaffar was chief guest on the\u00a0occasion while the ceremony was presided over by Dr. Noorul Islam MS\u00a0of DHQ Hospital Chitral. …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chitral"],"better_featured_image":{"id":40655,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":2592,"height":1944,"file":"2014\/03\/252.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"252-260x250.jpg","width":260,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/252.jpg?resize=260%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"252-450x337.jpg","width":450,"height":337,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/252.jpg?fit=450%2C337&ssl=1"},"large":{"file":"252-600x450.jpg","width":600,"height":450,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/252.jpg?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1"},"120x85":{"file":"252-120x85.jpg","width":120,"height":85,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/252-120x85.jpg"},"150x150":{"file":"252-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/252-150x150.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"252-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/252-415x260.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":3.5,"credit":"","camera":"DSC-F88","caption":"","created_timestamp":1395606976,"copyright":"","focal_length":"6.7","iso":"320","shutter_speed":"0.0333333333333","title":""}},"post":40653,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/252.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/252.jpg?fit=2592%2C1944&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40656,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653\/revisions\/40656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}