News: Prison-like hospitals for drug-resistant TB patients [Partners Zimbabwe]
News: Prison-like hospitals for drug-resistant TB patientsIRIN/PlusNews25 March 2008 *JOHANNESBURG (PlusNews) — Another hospital breakout in South Africa by drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) patients desperate to spend the holidays with their families has some public health experts questioning whether forced isolation is either the most effective or humane way to treat such patients.On Thursday, 25 patients with multi drug-resistant (MDR) TB and eight with extensively dru