Chinese City Offers TB Patients Free Treatment

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Chinese City Offers TB Patients Free Treatment

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Guangzhou City in south China is offering free treatment to tuberculosis (TB) sufferers. Municipal health officials estimate that the project will cost 7.17 million yuan (about 860,000 US dollars) this year.

The free medication project follows an eight-year TB-control program undertaken by Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province.

Health experts say China has about 5 million TB sufferers, the second largest number in the world. As many as 150,000 people die of the disease annually in China.

Guangdong was one of 13 Chinese regions which took part in the 1993-2001 TB-control program sponsored by the World Bank.

Some 54,890 suspected sufferers were examined and 33,032 infected patients received treatment under the previous program inGuangzhou, the municipal health authority said.

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