Geneva-Sana
The International TB Control Organization announced that because of the fight against the Corona pandemic, tens of thousands of people living with tuberculosis remain undiagnosed in the world, which may lead to a high death rate among them.
The Novosti news agency quoted Stop TB Partners as saying that experts have studied how this short period will affect the number of TB deaths and deaths during the next five years in countries where TB has become an acute and complex problem such as India, Kenya, and Ukraine where researchers have focused their attention. On two possible optimistic and pessimistic scenarios.
According to the first scenario, the number of people with tuberculosis in the world will increase by 2025 by 1.8 million, of whom 342.5 thousand will die, and according to the second scenario, the number will increase in 2025 by 6.3 million, of whom 1.4 million patients will die.
WHO experts point out that in the absence of the ability to examine, diagnose and treat those infected at this stage, that is, the "stage of corona virus control" and the lack of sufficient quantities of vaccines against tuberculosis, all efforts to combat tuberculosis in the world will go to waste and take us back 5 to 8 years.
