Six TB patients break loose from PE hospitalAbout six tuberculosis patients are on the run after they overpowered security guards and escaped from the Jose Pearson hospital in Port Elizabeth, the Eastern Cape health department said on Thursday.
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The patients' demands were unreasonable as they wanted to be allowed to go out and do shopping.
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The struggle to cope with drug-resistant TB
Health officials across the country are battling to cope with the growing numbers of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, and provinces are divided about whether to hospitalise all of them.
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Life in the shadow of deadly new TB
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\"MDR and XDR, if not controlled, are almost like biological warfare against the population,\" says Dr Lujabe.
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XDR TB is on the increase - in 2006 there was just one case at the Jose Pearson Hospital. Since then there have been more than 360.
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