Punjab´s TB fight suffers blow
(WorldNews Pakistan)

LAHORE: The Global Fund´s efforts to fight tuberculosis in Pakistan have suffered a blow after it has been reported that 221,000 TB patients including 125,000 in Punjab are `missing´. A majority of them have either gone to quacks or remained untreated, putting a healthy population at risk of the highly infectious disease. Moreover, there is a very alarming situation in Punjab where it has been warned through an official letter (on July 11) about suspension of global grant to its provincial TB Control Programme for utilisation of pathetically low funds - currently 43pc burn rate. The prime goal of the Global Fund is to trace/detect TB patients in Pakistan, put them on medicines and provide...