TB is no less serious than SARS, yet annual expenditures in Taiwan for tuberculosis prevention amount to only something over NT $ 100 million. Compare this figure to the NT $ 50 billion budget appropriated in one fell swoop for SARS prevention, and the enormous disparity is apparent.
結核病的嚴重性不下於 SARS，然而，我國每年肺結核的防治經費卻只有一億多台幣，與防治 SARS 一口氣編列五百億的預算相較，實有天壤之別。