Financial grant for patients with MDR increase

Financial grant for patients with MDR increase

 

5/18/2017 0:00

BAGHDAD / morning
Health Rusafa Department has decided to increase the financial grant to patients with resistant tuberculosis by 300 percent, while the grant of an infected 150 thousand dinars will, after it was 50 thousand dinars.
The Director General of the Department Abdul Ghani Saadoun in a statement »Sabah»: The department decided to grant increased financial patients with tuberculosis resistant, increased by 300 percent during the period Rkodhm in the hospital, explaining that the patient 's TB will receive 150 thousand dinars, after it was the grant does not exceed 50 thousand.
He added that the department has allocated a private lounge for people living with this disease, throughout its affiliated hospitals, pointing out that the drugs TB are expensive, especially that most of the injured are unable to buy them, making the department raise the amount of the grant to ensure that patients stay in hospital for treatment under the supervision of specialist doctors, especially that TB is classified hazardous and infectious diseases.
According to Director General of Health Rusafa Department, that the MDR stage is one of the most dangerous stages of the disease, as the patient where does not respond to all kinds of treatments as the disease becomes contagious, indicating at the same time that doctors specialists supervising the patients of this type are centers to provide medical and therapeutic services provided according to the highest levels while ensuring that the transmission of the disease to their family members.
Sadoun revealed the existence of a simple financial reward offered to the injured , who did not enter the corridors, pointing out that this comes within the department plan to improve the health situation for all patients in the country, and reduce infection rates.
It turns TB through the air and infects people with weakened immune system, while international statistics indicate that one out of every three people carrying the germ of the disease in their bodies , about two billion people in the world, but these bacteria are not active over the years and decades until the day comes It weakens the immunity for various reasons Vtenct infected with the disease of the individual, and in the face of serious pulmonary tuberculosis lies in the ease of moving from one person to another through the air.

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