\u201cPeople do not come to the health centers\u00a0to be diagnosed. Anybody who is diagnosed tries to hide. The family shuns them. The burden of disease is very high.The prevalence of disease in Ghana is as high as about having 77,000 people in Ghana with the disease.This is epidemiologically estimated at about 290 out of every 100,000 Ghanaians and that is a very high state of the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n
Parliament fights Tuberculosis<\/strong><\/p>\n Parliament, in a bid to fight Tuberculosis, approved a\u00a013,11,601.45<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Euro buyer-credit agreement between the government and ABN AMRO N.V Bank of the Netherlands, to finance the \u201cAccelerating Tuberculosis (TB) Case Detection\u201d project in the country.<\/p>\n It also approved a waiver of import duty and other levies totaling GH\u00a22,496,670 on materials and equipment to be used for the project.<\/p>\n The approval followed the presentation of the report of the Finance Committee of Parliament on the agreement, by the Chairman of the Committee, James Avedzi.<\/p>\n Mr Avedzi said the project was primarily aimed at boosting the diagnostic capacity of the public-health system by distributing digital radiographic systems.<\/p>\n Efforts not enough<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite the intervention by Parliament, Dr. Hanson revealed that Ghana has still not been able to totally curb the spread of the disease because various health institutions are unable to detect the disease in its early stages.<\/p>\n \u201cOur efforts are just scratching the surface of the problem, and we have not been able to tackle the\u00a0problem. As many cases as we find, we have enough medicines to treat and cover them so medicines are not a problem. It is finding the cases and treating them. Our major problem is how to find the cases.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana![\"parliament](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/parliament-adjourns.jpg\")
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