At least one million tuberculosis (TB) patients may die, with over 6.5 million people estimated to be affected globally..
At least one million tuberculosis patients may die, with over 6.5 million people estimated to be affected globally in the near future as a result of the secondary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gidado, who is the first non-Dutch professional to man the position of the organisation, also explained that TB innovation and interventions have to be made simple and scaled up to achieve significant results of detecting missing cases, raising the index of suspicion by healthcare workers, and effectively treating TB patients.According to him: “We are all going through a trying moment with the Covid-19 pandemic globally and with over 20 million already infected and affected.
“But Covid-19 even though negatively impacting the healthcare services with a significant amount of other diseases suffering, it is our own thinking and believes that we can also leverage a lot from the existing resources on Covid-19 to mainstream support to the health system, for the overall impact on other diseases including tuberculosis.”
“The overall impact of Covid-19 response on tuberculosis is in many fronts. One of the common ones is the fact that there is total destruction in the health system because everyone within the health system is concentrating on the response to Covid-19.“Therefore, it is not only TB that is suffering, other health services are actually currently suffering from the response to Covid-19 – from immunization to antenatal clinic attendance, to other regular clinics like diabetes, etc.
“Funding TB patients is a priority. The first thing we need to do is to know who are these missing patients, where are they, what kind of services do they want to access, and how can we provide those services?”
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