fight against tuberculosis by propagating the causes and effects of
the disease.
Mr. Abu Accrachie, the Northern Regional Tuberculosis (TB)
Control Coordinator of the Ghana Health Service, said about 30 per
cent of the world's population was infected with the disease.
He was speaking at a day's sensitisation workshop in Tamale on Thursday.
A non-governmental organisation, TB-Net Ghana, organised the
forum to mark the "Northern Regional Tuberculosis Day" for some 200
students of the Kalpohin Senior Secondary School in Tamale.
Mr Accrachie said 95 per cent of the world's 30 per cent of
infected persons are in developing countries while 35 per cent of
people in Ghana are infected with the disease.
He said the Ghana Health Service was aiming at detecting and
completely curing 85 per cent of detected new "smear" TB cases in the
country.Mrs. Azara Mahamadu, the Regional Chairperson on TB of the
NGO, called on the government to carry out a comprehensive and
sustained campaign against the disease.
29 March 07
