Vietnam seeks to end TB by 2030
By Le Nga  December 16, 2020 | 02:14 pm GMT+7
A doctor checks on residents coming for tuberculosis check at the medical center of HCMC's Go Vap District, November 2020. Photo by Go Vap medical center.
Health authorities are proactively seeking to identify early cases of tuberculosis among high-risk groups instead of waiting for sick people to show up at hospitals.
"In the past the health sector in Vietnam always sat back and waited until people had already developed TB symptoms to begin treatment, and that has not been enough," Nguyen Viet Nhung, deputy director of the National Lung Hospital, said.