More and more People Suffer From TB Epidemic in Pakistan

#Pakistan has one of the highest statistics of mortality because of #TB disease towards the Eastern Mediterranean region. Pakistan is in the list of 22 countries with the highest TB #burden. Every year nearly 440 000 people are being diagnosed with TB, about 20 000 of them are #children and #teenagers. Every year no less than 70 000 people die because of TB in the country. Pakistan is also estimated to have the fourth highest prevalence of #multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) globally.