Health Services
Tuberculosis Case Finding and Referral
OPD
refers patients suspected of having TB to Médécins Sans Frontières
for lab confirmation and treatment. IPD sends three sputum samples to MSF for
every patient who has a cough; 115 patients were TB sputum positive. In IPD,
when TB patients are very ill, they are admitted for treatment until stable and
then referred to MSF. A lumbar puncture is preformed for patients with suspected
TB meningitis and treatment is given upon lab confirmation. Some sputum negative
or extra pulmonary TB cases are treated or referred to MSF. Most lab confirmed
cases and fatalities were from males and Burma residents.
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