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Monday, May 4, 2015

Pakistan: Every 10th Pakistani suffering from hepatitis

LAHORE - Every 10th person in the country is suffering from one type of hepatitis or the other and the viral infection varies in severity from a self-limited condition with total recovery to a life-threatening or lifelong disease.

Over 20 million people in Pakistan are infected with hepatitis B and C virus including around 15 million with C and five million with B and the disease is swelling at an alarming rate, medical experts say.

“Owing to lack of preventive measures and treatment facilities, hepatitis prevalence in Pakistan is the highest on the globe.
  • Every 10th person is infected with hepatitis.
  • Over 1.
  • 5 lakh hepatitis patients die annually.
  • As such over 400 people are losing life to hepatitis every day.
  • Every year, over 1.
  • 5 lakh Hepatitis patients are added to the existing patient load,” said senior consultant and Principal Gujranwala Medical College Prof Aftab Mohsan.
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