Nigerian Thoracic Society seeks innovative strategies against TB

 The strategies include among others the expansion of the Directly Observed Treatment Strategy (DOTS) acclaimed to be the most effective health care model. A statement by its president Prof. Etete Peters and secretary (Dr.) Olufemi Adewole, said the 3 million whose diagnosis were missed or were not reported constitute the pool for new infections and diseases […]

 The strategies include among others the expansion of the Directly Observed Treatment Strategy (DOTS) acclaimed to be the most effective health care model.
 A statement by its president Prof. Etete Peters and secretary (Dr.) Olufemi Adewole, said the 3 million whose diagnosis were missed or were not reported constitute the pool for new infections and diseases especially for countries like Nigeria which ranks the third out of the 22 countries with highest disease burden globally.

 ‘’Reaching the three 3milion will ensure that TB is stopped or eradicated in our future time. It must be eradicated and the time to act is now. It challenges us to look at the fight against TB in an entirely new way.
 According to Prof. Etete Peters who is also the Chief Medical Director of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, the Nigerian Thoracic Society is working and collaborating with major stakeholders in order to ensure universal access to TB care.
 The organization he  further said has been involved in community mobilization and public education on various diseases including TB AS well as going from one  school to another creating awareness and dispelling rumour and myths about the disease through visits and radio program, capacity building.
 The professor who is worried that the disease has been compounded by the presence of muti-drugs resistance and recently the extensively Drug resistance TB, called on  patients with cough of more 2 to three weeks, chest pain and noisy breathing  etc to report to the nearest health facility for treatment.