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Kyrgyz Telegraph Agency

Bishkek, 22:42 | 19 april

Kyrgyzstan ranks among countries with high rate of drug-resistant form of tuberculosis

Date: 14:30, 24-03-2015.

″Epidemiological situation of Kyrgyzstan is effected by external migration. Over the past three years there were infected about 1.6 thousand of our citizens, who returned from abroad for treatment″, - said vice-prime-minister Damira Niyazaliyeva.

According to Health ministry, in 2014 Kyrgyzstan had 5763 people with tuberculosis – about 100 people for 100 thousand population.

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