54 persons die of TB in state every day
TNN | Mar 25, 2015, 02.00 AM IST
LUCKNOW: About 20,000 persons die of tuberculosis every year in UP. At this rate, TB kills 54 persons in UP every day. The number of TB deaths is 33 times the annual toll of encephalitis, 100 times the total dengue deaths in UP in the past one decade and over 800 times the total swine flu deaths in the state this season.
The scary statistic comes from the first ever report on status of TB in UP released on Tuesday by minister of state for health Nitin Agarwal here on the occasion of world TB awareness day. Heath officials informed that of the total 20,000 TB deaths in state, over 12,000 are of government sector employees.
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TNN | Mar 25, 2015, 02.00 AM IST
LUCKNOW: About 20,000 persons die of tuberculosis every year in UP. At this rate, TB kills 54 persons in UP every day. The number of TB deaths is 33 times the annual toll of encephalitis, 100 times the total dengue deaths in UP in the past one decade and over 800 times the total swine flu deaths in the state this season.
The scary statistic comes from the first ever report on status of TB in UP released on Tuesday by minister of state for health Nitin Agarwal here on the occasion of world TB awareness day. Heath officials informed that of the total 20,000 TB deaths in state, over 12,000 are of government sector employees.
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