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Manipur first in region to test multi drug-resistant tuberculosis
Telegraph | Imphal, June 10 2011
Manipur will have the first centre in the Northeast to treat multi drug-resistant TB, with one of the four national reference centres assuring the state’s intermediate reference laboratory of accreditation, in order to function as a national reference laboratory. A team from Delhi’s Lala Ram Swarup Hospital, one of the four national reference laboratories of the country for testing multi drug-resistant TB, visited the state’s intermediate reference laboratory at the medical department’s research and development wing at Lamphelpat of Imphal West last month.
If a TB patient undergoes the first line of treatment properly, he would be cured and would not contact multi drug-resistant strain, experts said.
Dr K. Priyokumar, the nodal officer of the ART Centre of the Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital here, said TB was not a killer disease even if an HIV-infected person contracted it as secondary infection. “But it becomes a killer disease when the patient fails to follow the doctors’ advice or take the full course of the prescriptions and starts spreading drug-resistant TB to others. It is because of this reason that number of patients is increasing not only in Manipur but also in India,” the doctor said.
He said HIV-positive patients were vulnerable to TB because their immune system was very low. He said about 30 to 35 per cent of the HIV/AIDS patients coming for treatment to the hospital were infected by TB. link:
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