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24
March 2007
World Tuberculosis Day
Belgorod –example of a successful Russian Red
Cross community-based tuberculosis programme |
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![Andrey Maslennikov is the deputy chief doctor of the state tuberculosis dispensary in Bolgorod. “Thanks to support from the Red Cross our laboratory became a regional centre for the entire Belgorod oblast [region]. The diagnostic is essential. We carry out three different tests for tuberculosis, and repeat each one three times to make sure.”](images/p15498.jpg) |
Andrey
Maslennikov is the deputy chief doctor of the state tuberculosis
dispensary in Bolgorod. “Thanks to support from the
Red Cross our laboratory became a regional centre for the
entire Belgorod oblast [region]. The diagnostic is essential.
We carry out three different tests for tuberculosis, and repeat
each one three times to make sure.”
(p15498)
Photo: Vladimir
Melnik/International Federation
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