Tuberculosis in South Africa (4)
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Tb is obviously going to be a long topic. At Mseleni in the early
80's we moved away from prolonged hospitalisation to a system of home
visit follow ups. The patient is assisted to receive their meds in a
monthly package but not directly supervised. The compliance was good
and the outcome good. Surely the patient must be the most interested
person in the outcome of their own disease. Paternalistic attitudes
however do not go away very easily!
Victor Fredlund
mailto:victor@dhmsel.db.healthlink.org.za
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