The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, HVN, has raised the alarm over the high level of death caused by tuberculosis in Ogun State.
The programme officer emphasised that there was a more than 100% rise from the 2019 data gathered by the institute.She further said data from the IHVN and USAID TB-LON 3 project for Ogun State, 3000 cases were recorded in 2019.She noted that 95% of the patients were already placed on treatment.
“Since the inception of the TB Long 3 project in Ogun State which started in 2019, Ogun State was diagnosing a little over 3,000 cases annually but presently from 2019 till now for example last year in 12 months they were able to diagnose over 6,000 cases which is a huge increment. It is over a 100% increase in the number of cases diagnosed.