TB sufferers in Indonesia reach 4.2 million, 11,463 of whom are drug resistant

JAKARTA – Other than Covid-19, tuberculosis or TBC is a disease that is very important to pay attention to. With inadequate handling, this disease that attacks the human respiratory system can spread quickly.

Deputy Minister of Health, dr. Dante Saksono Harbuwono revealed, promotion and prevention of 260 million Indonesians towards health without tuberculosis is something to be pursued in the next few years.

“People who are exposed to tuberculosis currently reach 4,225,000 people. So there are several approaches that must be taken, namely a surveillance and tracing approach to tuberculosis patients,” said Deputy Minister of Health Dante in the ‘Socialization for the Acceleration of Stunting Reduction and Tuberculosis Control’ on the Coordinating Ministry’s YouTube channel. PMK, Tuesday (28/9/2021).

In addition, another thing that needs to be considered in the missing cases of TB is that some of the people who suffer from TB are drug resistant. Currently there are about 11,463 cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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“Tuberculosis patients with drug resistance have the potential to transmit, causing missing cases to become invisible in the community. Therefore, it is very important to approach drug resistance tuberculosis,” he concluded.

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