KENYA: Isolation wards vital in TB fight

NAIROBI Friday, October 31, 2008 (IRIN) - Five months after a specialised facility for multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients was established at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, the lack of isolation wards is raising concerns. "This is not the best place; TB is a highly infectious disease,” Catherine Koskei, a matron working at the facility, told IRIN. “The patients need to be restricted.” Patients make daily visits to the centre, a tent in an open field in the hospital...