QALAT (Pajhwok): The number of patients diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) has increased by 25 percent in southern Zabul province amid absence of a special hospital for treatment of the epidemic disease.
Dr. Javed Asmati, tuberculosis treatment department at the Public Health Department, told Pajhwok Afghan News that TB cases had increased in Zabul like other provinces amid lack of enough treatment facilities.
He said thousands of patients were examined in Qalat city and districts during solar year 1400 and of them 1022 people were diagnosed with TB and seven persons died from the disease.
Dr. Asmati said the number of . . .
