PM officially launches TB awareness campaign

Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has officially launched the K100 million awareness campaign on Tuberculosis in the country today.

The campaign is to fight against TB as part of the Governments priorities on Health services in the country is an area of concern where it sees TB as a killer disease that should be dealt with.

PM O’Neill said the awareness campaign is to make our communities aware of the disease itself and how they can be able to avoid getting it and also how to go about to get treatment for its cure.

“TB is a threat to our nation so we have to stand together to fight it and live a healthier lives,” Mr O’Neill said.

He said that most part of the awareness would be in  ‘tokpisin’ for the local people to understand the content of the awareness campaign.

“TB is curable and can be prevented and when we take the right approach to fight the disease we can stop TB,” Mr O’Neill said.

Mr O’Neill presented a video show on how the TB awareness campaign will appear n the Televisions, and he also said that the messages will go through the established mobile communication network such as Digicel.

The launch was witnessed by Minister for Public Service Dr. Puka Temu, Minister for State enterprises Ben Micah, Minister for Finance James Marape, Minister for Sports Justin Tkatchenko, health secretary and Digicel reps and the media.   

The mobile phone awareness has been establish and people are expected to receive the messages of the awareness campaign anytime soon, while the Television ones will be shown in its commercial programs, and for print media and online as advertising publicity.

The campaign targets specific locations around the nation including NCD, Gulf and Western provinces and also other parts of the country to be alert of TB.