- CAPE TOWN, SA -- The Weekend Argus newspaper
reports that the TB specialist clinic Brooklyn Chest Clinic in Cape Town
is now unable to cope with the increase in patients with drug- resistant
tuberculosis strains. Its patient-load in the isolation wards has quadrupled
since March and Western Cape healthworkers are now calling for these (highly
infectious) patients " to be treated in the community.' At the moment,
many of the overflow-patients are placed in side-wards of hospitals or
even sent to prisons.
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- Link -
- http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3821509
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