25 March

Vietnam detects 124,000 tuberculosis (TB) cases each year, while around 12,000 people die from the disease, local media reported on Monday.

Vietnam is in the world's top 30 countries and regions with high TB rates, ranking the 16th in the number of TB patients ,daily newspaper Vietnam News quoted Nguyen Viet Nhung , director of the country's National Lung Hospital, as saying.

"Up to 70 percent of Vietnamese people with TB are at working age. Therefore, TB is really a problem affecting the economy of each family in particular and the country in general," Nhung said.
Vietnam has set a goal of eradicating TB by 2030.

Xinhua