Mobile pulmoscaners will operate on March 24 in eight cities of the Vitebsk region

March 23, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. During the republican preventive campaign "White Chamomile" on World Tuberculosis Day on March 24, mobile pulmonoscaners will operate in eight cities of the Vitebsk region, the Vitebsk Regional Clinical Tuberculosis Dispensary informed a BELTA correspondent. Those willing will be able to undergo a free fluorographic examination. According to phthisiatricians, fluorography helps detect the dangerous disease in its early stages. In the Vitebsk region, more than 80% of the adult population undergo fluorography annually. In rural areas, this figure approaches 100%. In Vitebsk, next to the pulmonoscaner, a tent of the Belarusian Red Cross will be set up, where the society's employees and 15 volunteers will distribute printed materials on tuberculosis prevention, and a phthisiatrician will provide consultations on the prevention of lung diseases. The republican preventive campaign "White Chamomile" is held as part of the information campaign "I Can Stop Tuberculosis!". Its organizers in Vitebsk are the local branch of the Belarusian Red Cross Society and the regional clinical tuberculosis dispensary. The campaign is funded by a grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which is being implemented in Belarus by the United Nations Development Programme in cooperation with the Ministry of Health from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2015. According to the regional clinical tuberculosis dispensary, the incidence of tuberculosis in the Vitebsk region has been decreasing by an average of 2% annually since 2005. In 2010, 464 people contracted tuberculosis, which is 22 less compared to the previous year; seven cases of the disease were detected among children and adolescents. Among all causes of death, tuberculosis accounts for less than 0.5%. -0-