TB Cases In South Lampung Melejit, Add 689 Cases In 2022

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The South Lampung District Health Office (Dinkes) said that during 2022, cases of tuberculosis (TBC) in the area increased by 689 cases compared to 2021. Head of the Disease Prevention and Control Division of the South Lampung District Health Office, Basuki Didik Setiawan, said that TB cases in 2022 reached 2,084 cases or an increase of 689 cases from 2021 as many as 1,395 cases. He said it was necessary to play the role of all people, agencies and organizations that care about the prevention and control of tuberculosis which is an infectious disease. "With the support of all levels, both the Healthy Lampung Initiative (ILS) organization, the Coalition of the Indonesian Professional Organization for Tuberculosis in South Lampung, private hospitals and clinics, and Bob Bazar Kalida Hospital in an effort to prevent and control TB disease, we are optimistic that this year we will be able to eliminate tuberculosis," he said when contacted, Antara, Tuesday, January 10. Didik reminded people who have TB symptoms, such as coughing for two weeks or more, are the main symptoms. In addition, he said, it was also accompanied by other symptoms, such as a bleeding cough, decreased weight, lack of appetite, secretions at night without carrying out activities, shortness of breath. "If he experiences these symptoms, he asks to immediately go to the Health Service Facility so that he is known to have tuberculosis or not, because TB is a direct infectious disease," he said.