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Original Post Date: 2008-02-13 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
The Eastern Cape health department is investigating allegations that extreme drug resistant tuberculosis (X-DR TB) patients were leaving the isolation ward of an East London hospital to visit shebeens.
Spokesperson Siyanda Manana on Wednesday said his department met the security company tasked with ensuring these patients remained at the hospital, to discuss the matter.
According to a report on the Daily Dispatch website, patients with the highly contagious and largely untreatable strain of TB regularly left their isolation ward beds to drink with locals in community taverns.
X-DR TB is spread by coughing or sneezing, therefore movements of patients who carry it should ideally be restricted because they posed a major threat to public health.
Manana said the department was “taken aback” and “shocked” by the allegations which it first heard about through the media.
“Yesterday [Tuesday], we had a meeting with the security company, Red Alert, because one agreed-upon thing is that no one leaves without authority. It is still an allegation but we will make sure we get to the bottom of it… we were taken aback and shocked,” he said.
He added that security was beefed up at the Fort Grey TB Hospital last year after 49 multi-drug resistant TB and XDR TB patients escaped from the Jose Pearson hospital and from Fort Grey.
“It will be difficult for them [patients] to leave but obviously if people want to do something they find a way,” he said.
Two dozen security guards were deployed at the facility each day, including weekends, to ensure that patients remained in the isolation wards.
But according to the Daily Dispatch report patients from the facility were a “permanent” sight in the township taverns.
“We drink and dance with them all weekend,” a local school teacher told the paper.
Meanwhile, Manana said all but two patients who absconded from the Jose Pearson hospital last year had been found. The department discovered that one of them passed away in January while the other was still at large. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080213154448680C147038