World Health Organization calls attention to tuberculosis in Mongolia

 

The World Health Organization
is calling from greater political assistance to combat multidrug resistant-tuberculosis
in Mongolia. 

"There is an urgent need
to scale up the management of multidrug resistant-TB, which has emerged
across the Region, including the Pacific," said Dr Shigeru Omi,
World Health Organization Regional Director for the Western Pacific.
"The potential magnitude of the threat of multidrug-resistant TB
in the Region requires countries to urgently develop a response and
thus prevent the development of extensively drug resistant-TB or XDR-TB." 

The Region has about a third
of the global multidrug resistant-TB burden, mostly in China and the
Philippines, and to some extent, in Mongolia, the Republic of Korea
and Viet Nam. 

Tuberculosis continues to be
a major public health problem in the Western Pacific despite it being
the only WHO Region that has achieved the 2005 global targets for TB
control.

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