More efforts taken to push back tuberculosis
Delegates at a conference in Hanoi on August 15 discussed measures to complete tuberculosis (TB) treatment facilities in 15 provinces that have yet to build special hospitals for this disease. The conference was held in the context that Vietnam is ranked 16 among 30 countries worldwide with the highest number of TB patients, and 15 out of 30 countries with the highest multidrug-resistant TB burden.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved the establishment of a national committee on TB eradication. Its operation will be supported by the same apparatus that has been running projects for the National Committee for AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution Prevention and Control.
