HYDERABAD, March 25: Speakers, at a seminar here on Monday, advised the TB patients to approach the Directly Observed Treatment Strategy (DOTS) centres instead of going to different doctors.

The seminar was organized by the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences to mark the World TB Day.

Speakers at the seminar warned that TB was rapidly spreading in the country and stressed the need for joint and concerted efforts to eradicate the fatal disease.

They said that the curable disease needed urgent attention but they would have to wage a war to get rid of the killer disease.

They said that delay in diagnosis, incomplete treatment and indifferent attitude of the patients were main causes behind the spread of TB.

They stressed the need for implementing the DOTS programme in letter and spirit.

The speakers included Vice-Chancellor of the LUMHS Professor Jan Mohammad Memon, Dr Allah Bachayo Memon and Dr Ghazala Ansary.

Meanwhile, a walk was organized by the Anti-TB Association, which started from the Gymkhana and terminated at the press club.

Literature on the disease was distributed among the participants.