In the highlands of Kalinga Province, an ancient disease continues its quiet passage through communities — 415 people diagnosed with tuberculosis in just five months of 2026, among them 61 children. Health officials under Dr. Edward Tandingan are not sounding a new alarm so much as renewing an old one: that tuberculosis yields only to patience, discipline, and early action. The numbers are falling from prior years, but the margin between progress and a drug-resistant crisis remains thin, held together by the willingness of each patient to complete six unbroken months of treatment.
Kalinga records 415 TB cases in first five months of 2026; officials urge early testing
415 residents diagnosed with tuberculosis including 61 children; disease threatens community health if treatment protocols not followed.