Awareness is the basic requirement of a healthy human society. It helps to impart knowledge to those sections of the society which are unaware & backward, while helping them towards leading a better social life. Every year 24th March is remembered as World Tuberculosis Day to raise public awareness in the society about the devastating health and social epidemic. The purpose of this day is to bring awareness among the society we live in. Tuberculosis is such a disease that if the symptoms go ignored, it can often lead to fatal health injury or a loss of human life.
Tuberculosis exists everywhere and can affect anybody. It is an airborne infectious disease caused by a bacteria known as Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. If anytime a person thinks he or she has been exposed to someone with tuberculosis, he/she should immediately consult a physician. In the case of unavailability of a physician or a doctor, one can always approay a primary health centre, they often have prerequisite facilities and can assist to understand the diaese. They’ll give you a TB skin test or special blood test, sputum test to find out whether you have it. When this disease is taken lightly and no proper diagnosis is done then it can affect many parts of a human being such lungs, brain, spine, kidney, joints and lymph Nodes.
As per Global tuberculosis report 2018, India accounted for 27 percent of the 10 million people who developed tuberculosis cases in 2017 the highest among the top 30 high Tuberculosis burden countries in the world. The symptoms are loss of weight, loss of appetite, mal nutrition, fever, night sweats and chronic cough for more than two weeks. WHO (World Health Organisation) has banned different types of blood tests for testing Sputum which is taken from lungs and tissues of the affected body parts. Some of the recommended diagnosis tests are
- Acid- Fast Bacilli (AFB) smear
- Acid- Fast Bacilli (AFB) Culture
- Gene Xpert
Tuberculosis consists of minimum four medicine with a duration course of minimum of 6 months. The motive of World Tuberculosis Day is to bring awareness so that people come to know about this dreadful disease and ways to prevent it. Even if they are not affected by it, they can always assist the motive of this day by creating awareness to those people where World Tuberculosis Day remembrances are unable to reach.
