If this DOT (Directly Observed Treatment Short-course) is just about the only method to ensure that patients take their meds, why does the government not employ more "Observers" ? http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79107
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Simple because the locals here are to doff to remember to take their tablets. Or they do not care. And because they drink their pills on and off the terrible new strain of TB has developed in SA, a very hard to cure strain of TB.
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It wouldn't be feasible for government to employ observers in most cases, have you any idea how rampant TB actually is in South Africa, there is no comparison to 1st world countries, the sheer amount of observers needed would put an end to such a programme before it could even properly take off. When I went for my x-rays for the emigration medical tests I was chatting to the doctor, he also said, putting aside infections in the African population that most wouldn't believe how many white South Africans that go for those tests actually have TB, frightening, it only takes one breath or a microscopic spit particle and you are infected.
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The treatment take 6 months and if you don't Finnish it and try start again later your body resist the treatment So your are in Isolation at hospital for 6 months no people who may came and visit Therefor so many people stop the treatment and die of it
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