Healthcare: TB Programme Manager: 40 pct of tuberculosis patients uninsured
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
National Programme for Tuberculosis Control Manager Gilda Popescu, MD says that 40 percent of the tuberculosis (TB) patients are uninsured.'As many as 40 percent of the drug-sensitive or multi-drug resistant tuberculosis are uninsured. [TB is] a disease that evolves on a background of high levels of poverty and inefficiency of healthcare systems undergoing development or improvement. (...) Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), ...