Awareness about BCG vaccination and pollution-free environment are imperative to control Tuberculosis in the country. Government should take urgent actions to stop and minimise pollution and create awareness for BCG vaccination in order to control lung diseases, specially Tuberculosis in the country.
This was stated by Chest Specialist Panel of Pakistan chairman Dr Haye Saeed in his report on MMR released in a local primary government school.
The report suggested that every one square mile residential area should have one acre green park and one acre playground as it declared green park lungs of a city and playgrounds essential for the next generation health.
Every household should plant a tree in their courtyard and look after it so that plants could purify the air by absorbing carbon dioxide and emitting oxygen, it explained.
The report also criticised the rise in number of high-rise buildings in residential areas of the city and proposed to restrict them to four stories so that fresh breeze from the Arabian Sea could blow freely and drive out pollution.
The report also emphasised on the strict control of gas/smoke-emitting vehicles and stressed on the expansion of non-smoke-emitting bus services.
Referring to a survey results, the report mentioned so far 25,071 members of organised communities had been examined through MMR chest X-ray out of which 7,856 were school children belonging to 22 schools of the city.
Out of 7,856 examinations of these school children, 903 children were found with chest disease, which came to 11.5 percent.
Major diseases found in children were Emphysema (33 percent), Chronic Bronchitis (21.5 percent), Cardiomegaly (21.5 percent), Hilar Adenitis (12.2 percent) and Scoliosis Spine (6 percent), it stated.
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