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In Kazakhstan

04 April 2016
In Astana instruct to discover tuberculosis by blood tests

In the future capital doctors are ready to refuse fluorography by determining tuberculosis.

The new way of detection of tuberculosis at citizens is step by step realized in Astana, passed the correspondent of Today.kz. Doctors have learned to define an illness by blood test.

"We can boast of the fact that in this year have for the first time passed to definition of tuberculosis through the blood. We have signed the contract with the South Korean side, have received and have installed the new equipment, - report the chief of the department of health care of Astana Eric Bayzhunusov at a meeting of the deputy prime minister of RK Dariga Nazarbayeva with the medical public. - Now we are conducting the researches on two policlinics in the pilot mode. If it gets accustomed, then, probably, we will carry out how screening researches. We will define tuberculosis by blood".

As Bayzhunusov considers, such method will allow to diagnose precisely tuberculosis for patients and to define their sensitivity to the appointed antibiotics.

"In addition in this year we are going build the new building of a TB dispensary. I think, all cycle of treatment will be provided there. Then we will be able considerably to win against tuberculosis", - has declared Bayzhunusov.

By information of Management of health, the indicator of primary incidence of tuberculosis in Astana has decreased.

A source: Info-tses