Nearly half of the smear negative pulmonary TB in National TB Programme remain undetected in TImor Leste, probably due to poor access to chest radiography. Bairo Pite Clinic Lanud a NGO Health facility that treats 30% of TB cases Nationally, lack of the Xray machine to diagnose smear negative patient one of the challenge that pushes physicians at BPCL have to send patients to the private health facilities for their chest radiograph (CXR) taken.
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