PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): A new high-capacity tuberculosis diagnosis machine worth $100,000 has been activated in the provincial hospital of northern Baghlan province, an official said on Monday.
Public health director Dr. Masoud Ahmadi told a meeting in this regard at the provincial hospital in Pul-i-Khumri, the provincial capital, that the machine resolved the problem of examination of tuberculosis patients in the province.
He said the new machine had the capacity to test sputum samples of 16 patients in two hours and that the old machine had the capacity of only two or three examinations in . . .
