China News Service, Yinchuan, March 24 (Reporter Yang Di) March 24, 2022 is the 27th "World Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Day". The reporter learned from the Ningxia Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Institute that day, from 2016 to 2020, Ningxia tuberculosis reported the incidence The reported incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis has decreased from 40.00/100,000 in 2016 to 29.74/100,000 in 2020, with an annual decline rate of 7.2%, which is lower than the reported incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" (42.79/100,000). Decreased significantly.
Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which can invade many organs, and pulmonary tuberculosis infection is the most common.
Pulmonary tuberculosis is mainly transmitted through the respiratory tract. If it can be diagnosed in time and given reasonable treatment, most of them can be cured clinically.
Data show that from 2016 to 2020, a total of 11,876 pulmonary tuberculosis patients were found in Ningxia, a decrease of 11.1% compared with the number of pulmonary tuberculosis patients (13,366 cases) during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period.
In 2021, a total of 1,784 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis were found in Ningxia, a decrease of 5.21% compared with 1,882 cases in 2020. The reported incidence of tuberculosis was 24.81/100,000, a decrease of 16.58% from the same period last year (29.74/100,000).
It is understood that the Fourth People's Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and the Ningxia Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Institute printed more than 1,500 posters, distributed more than 2,000 publicity handbags, advertising umbrellas and publicity notebooks, and distributed more than 2,000 publicity handbags, advertising umbrellas and publicity notebooks. Display and hand-painted kite flying activities to popularize TB prevention and control policies and content, and call on the whole society to take active actions and work together to eliminate TB.
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