DUSHANBE, April 29, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik TB service has received a consignment of digital fixed X-ray equipment that will allow significantly improving examination of patients.

Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, Ms. Zumrad Maqsumova, tuberculosis grant manager, UNDP CO Tajikistan, noted that four digital fixed X-ray equipment and two mobile photofluorographic units for a total amount of some 1.3 million US dollars had been delivered to Tajikistan for the purpose of supporting implementation of the tuberculosis-prevention program.  According to her, the equipment have been provided as part of Round 6 TB Grant of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) aimed at controlling TB in Tajikistan.

One of the fixed X-ray equipment will be installed at the Republican TB-Prevention Center and the remaining three fixed X-ray equipment will be distributed to the provinces, the tuberculosis grant manager said.

One of the mobile photofluorographic units has been handed over to penitentiary department of the Ministry of Justice for medical examination of prison inmate and another one has been handed over the Ministry of Health.

The mobile photofluorographic unit will allow going to remote areas difficult of access to examine rural residents.