Joint Efforts Urged in anti-TB Campaign

Health services are also required to be adjusted in the best possible way to avoid the patients from the risk of contracting Covid-19.

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Residents of the Cirebon Narcotics Penitentiary, West Java, show sputum samples for tuberculosis examination, Thursday (12/3/2020).

Accessible treatment services and supports from all stakeholders will speed up the recovery of tuberculosis (TB) patients. That will help the realization of Indonesia\'s dream of being free from TB by 2050.

“(I) do feel lethargic and tired. That’s not to mention the pain effects, from nausea, feeling numb, the face getting reddish to the skin turning dark. This endemic also worries me because I still have to go back and forth to the puskesmas (community health center) twice a week,” Yus (45) said, Wednesday (24/3/2021) in Jakarta.