Mobile testing and screening is the way forward to cut down the high rate of Tuberculosis rate in the Western Province.
Deputy Secretary for the Department of Health Dr Paison Dakulala said mobile testing will be carried out to diagnose people quickly and administer treatment.
“Mobile diagnostics testing will be carried out in Daru.
“We are moving into active screening. Before we were challenged because we did not have the capacity to screen and hold persons on medication till cure.
He added that the Daru Basic Management Unit is a center of excellence to test people with TB.
The National Government has already released K8 million to help fight TB in Daru which has one of the highest rates of multi-drug resistant TB cases in the country.
An Australian Government sponsored study showed that, in 2011 South Fly District of Western Province had 230 registered cases of TB.
Since 2011, 63 cases of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) have been diagnosed in Daru.