TB incidence in Chechnya twice the all-Russian, and at current growth rates, the country faces an epidemic of this disease. On this, as reported by RIA Novosti, said today the Minister for Health Chechnya Shaheed Akhmadov. After Akhmadov now registered in hospitals more than 20,000 residents of Chechnya, and half of them have the disease is active. Tubinfitsirovannosti index among children in Chechnya reached 65-70 percent. Thus, according to the minister, could the actual number of TB cases may be much higher, as 90% of cases the disease is detected in treated patients to the doctor. Following Akhmadov increase in the incidence of tuberculosis in Chechnya in the past 15 years and is associated with factors such as fighting, destroyed the economy and infrastructure of the Republic, the lack of funding for health care, poor environmental and sanitary-epidemiological situation. The minister stressed that the CR TB doctors now four times less than in Russia. After Akhmadov soon Chechen government plans to increase the content of TB doctors 2.5-fold increase. Starting next month, these specialists will get 18 to 20,000 rubles. In addition to the end, the country will begin construction of the TB hospital 600 beds, as well as tuberculosis sanatorium in the mountain village sneakers.
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