Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam is chairman of the (Photo: VNA)– The national committee for tuberculosis prevention and control has been
launched with being its chairman.
Deputy Minister of
Health Nguyen Truong Son and Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front
Central Committee Truong Thi Ngoc Anh were assigned as deputy chairpersons of
the committee.
Members of the committee
include leaders and officials of different ministries and organisations such as
the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and the Red Cross Society.
The committee’s duty is
to help to give guidance to concerned organisations in
tuberculosis prevention and control towards eliminating the disease by 2030.
It will also propose
with PM Phuc measures and action programmes related to the disease.
The
is responsible for ensuring work facilities for the committee.
Around 12,000 people die
from tuberculosis each year in Vietnam – that’s one and half times higher than
those killed in traffic accidents over the same period, according to the
National Lung Hospital.
Vietnam is in the
world’s top 30 countries with high tuberculosis rates. The country ranks 16th
in the number of tuberculosis patients and 13th in the rankings of
drug-resistant tuberculosis patients. Seventy percent are of working age
(between 15 and 55).
It is estimated that Vietnam
still has 124,000 newly detected cases each year./.
Source: VietnamPlus
