{"id":33442,"date":"2015-03-25T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T09:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=33442"},"modified":"2015-03-25T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T09:48:15","slug":"ministry-of-health-seeks-to-achieve-national-strategy-for-eliminating-tuberculosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=33442","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Health seeks to achieve national\u00a0strategy for eliminating Tuberculosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damascus, SANA Tuberculosis’ infections in Syria\u00a0were decreased from 5,000 in 2000 to 3,250 in 2014\u00a0as the percentage of the success of the treatment\u00a0reached 79,59 during last year which matches the\u00a0international standards, Deputy Health Minister\u00a0Dr. Ahmad Khlaifawi said in a symposium held by\u00a0Health Ministry on Tuesday at al-Cham Hotel in\u00a0Damascus.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Khalaifawi added, during the symposium\u00a0organized in cooperation with World Health\u00a0Organization (WHO) and UN Development Program\u00a0(UNDP) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
\nTuberculosis and Malaria, that the ministry is\u00a0continuing work on treating all infected persons\u00a0in a way that achieves the national strategy for\u00a0eliminating the disease and limits its spread.<\/p>\n

Director of Communicable and Chronic Diseases and\u00a0Director of the National Program to Fight\u00a0Tuberculosis at Health Ministry, Dr. Ahmad\u00a0Dhumiriyeh said that setting the new national
\nstrategy for 2015-2019 aims at eliminating\u00a0Tuberculosis disease in the country.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Regional Director of the UN Development\u00a0Program (UNDP) Jan Thomas Hiemstra expressed\u00a0support to the activities of the Syrian national\u00a0program through ensuring medicine for the
\npatients, offering laboratory tests and developing\u00a0local capacities in the health sector.<\/p>\n

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Director of medical services at the Syrian Arab\u00a0Red Crescent (SARC) Dr. Hazem Baklah, for his\u00a0part, pointed out the cooperation between SARC\u00a0and Health Ministry in fighting Tuberculosis in a\u00a0number of areas, like the Eastern Ghota where the\u00a0ministry provided SARC with medicines and\u00a0necessary protocols for treatment.<\/p>\n

Dr. Baklah added that the medical center\u00a0affiliated to SARC in Douma area is treating 167\u00a0cases.<\/p>\n

The WHO dedicated March 24th as the World\u00a0Tuberculosis Day. The day aims at promoting\u00a0awareness of this disease, fighting and treating\u00a0it.<\/p>\n

World TB Day, marks the day in 1882 when German\u00a0microbiologist Robert Koch announced his discovery\u00a0of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB).<\/p>\n

H. Zain\/ Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damascus, SANA Tuberculosis’ infections in Syria\u00a0were decreased from 5,000 in 2000 to 3,250 in 2014\u00a0as the percentage of the success of the treatment\u00a0reached 79,59 during last year which matches the\u00a0international standards, Deputy Health Minister\u00a0Dr. Ahmad Khlaifawi said in a symposium held by\u00a0Health Ministry on Tuesday at al-Cham Hotel in\u00a0Damascus. Dr. Khalaifawi added, during the symposium\u00a0organized …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,12,106,107],"tags":[859,4809],"class_list":["post-33442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-conferences-seminars","category-health-environment","category-syria-and-the-world","category-united-nations-syria-and-the-world","tag-health-2","tag-ministry-symposuim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}