Offentlig kritik er så godt som ukendt i den lille nation i det sydlige Afrika. Men swazi-sygeplejersker skosede nyligt den ringe beskyttelse mod at få tuberkulose på hospitaler.
MBABANE, 26 April 2012 (PlusNews) Nurses attached to the National Tuberculosis (TB) Hospital in Swaziland’s commercial hub, Manzini, are blaming inadequate infection measures at the hospital for the risk they face.
TB is one of the primary killers and the main opportunistic disease in people living with HIV and AIDS. In a country with the world’s highest HIV prevalence, 80 percent of HIV-positive people are co-infected with TB.
Six times higher
A study conducted in neighbouring South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Province has found that the incidence of extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) and multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB is six to seven times higher among health care workers than among non-health care worker patients.
There are no official figures for health care workers infected with TB in Swaziland.
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