Instead of throwing away your old, obsolete TV, donate it to someone who is ill or in need. In an attempt to expand the horizons of patients who only view hospital walls every day, doctors at the TB dispensary have urged inhabitants of the Ternopil district to provide TV sets to these patients. The only prerequisites, according to INTB, are that the equipment be in working order and no more than fifteen years old.
“Many people who install serious audio-acoustic systems, video systems, plasma TVs, and TVs that are 10 or 5 years old at home are already thinking about where to put them and how to get rid of them,” said Olena Zozulyak, regional coordinator of the ACSM for the Ternopil region. Therefore, we would like to make a public appeal: if you have any of these TVs that are in good working order, please donate them to the TB dispensary.
There is a TB pandemic in Ukraine right now. Our region hasn’t been exempt either. Despite being one of the six regions with the lowest prevalence, doctors caution that there’s no reason to unwind. Everyone is at risk, regardless of background, because airborne droplets are the way that tuberculosis is disseminated. Over the course of the eleven months in 2012, 515 people were discovered to be unwell.
“If we take, for example, our mobile fluorography machines go to districts and villages, a small number of people undergo X-ray examinations, approximately 20-30 people per day, although several times more may come,” stated Tetyana Romaniv, a tuberculosis specialist at the regional tuberculosis dispensary. “This demonstrates once more how poorly the village council and paramedics are performing their duties and failing to educate the populace about the issues surrounding tuberculosis.”
