KARACHI, March 26: City Naib Nazim Nasrin Jalil has said that it is now inevitable to generate awareness and information about tuberculosis and people have to be told that it is no longer an incurable disease.

She said that while the Haqparast leadership on the one hand was keenly working for infrastructure improvement in the city, it was preferentially working on the health sector, on the other.

She was addressing a torch-bearing rally taken out Sunday evening in connection with World TB Day. The rally was organised with the coordination of the CDGK health department, the provincial TB control programme and various social organisations.

“Our jihad against diseases is continuing and some 3,000 lady health workers of city government are also active in this jihad,” Nasrin Jalil said.

She said that at present 62 TB diagnosis centres were functioning in Karachi out of which 32 were looked after by the city government, 25 were managed by various NGOs while five were functioning under the Ojha Sanatorium.She said the city government was managing 105 TB treatment centres where medicines for an eight-month course were provided free. — APP