MySuru: patients who have won the battle against Covid-19 but struggled with cough which lasts more than two weeks, fatigue, fever and suffering weight loss, it is recommended to get themselves tested for TB (TB).
A subsequent survey and analysis of their recovery conditions from Covid-19 shows that their immune system suffered considerable damage, not to mention their weakening lung conditions, increasing their contract TB opportunities.
Tuberculosis spread through the air, and from droplets issued by infected patients.
The more quickly detected, the better the chance to recover from the disease.
In Mysuru, almost 82% of 4,232 patients in MySuru contracting TB recovered from disease, while 79% of 3,194 people were diagnosed with TB were cured in 2020.
On Wednesday, this district has recorded 2,140 cases of Tuberculosis 2021.
The district health department, Meanwhile, compiling a list of more than one lakh patient who has recovered from Covid-19, phlegm samples from who are being collected and tested for TB during a 15-day campaign.
In Mysuru, 88 samples were collected on the first day of the campaign.
Mysuru TB District Control Officer Dr.
Mohammed Shiraz said, “We hope to give birth to all 1,14 lakh patients who have recovered from Covid-19 in the MySore district to TB tests.
Those who are contracted by Covid-19 between January and June 2021 will be tested during the campaign This.
If any of them show symptoms of TB, we will collect their phlegm samples at the door of their door.
We appeal to the public to work with the Ministry of Health personnel.
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Patients who have recovered from Covid are vulnerable to tuberculosis
