Phnom Penh, June 27, 2022. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) donated six state of the art, digital X-ray machines to the National Center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy (CENAT) and provincial health departments in a ceremony held at CENAT offices in Phnom Penh today.



“Controlling tuberculosis is a global priority and USAID is proud to support the Ministry of Health’s commitment to end TB in Cambodia by 2030,” said Ms. Erin Nicholson, USAID/Cambodia Acting Mission Director. “The X-ray machines we hand over today will help find missing TB cases in the community and will improve health for the most vulnerable Cambodians.”

The portable X-ray machines will screen and diagnose people for TB and complement other forms of diagnostic testing in public referral hospitals and at the community level in 10 under-served operational districts. USAID will support the installation of artificial intelligence software for the X-ray machines, which will enable digital detection of TB, resulting in reduced workloads for X-ray technicians and improvement in the accuracy of diagnosis. In addition, these machines will play an important role in the third national TB prevalence survey taking place later this year...

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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:34 am

The portable X-ray machines will screen and diagnose people for TB

Those machines won't diagnose a single thing lol