{"id":4663,"date":"2023-04-05T07:27:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2023-04-05T07:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:27:30","slug":"high-tb-prevalence-worries-medics-in-kagadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2023\/04\/05\/high-tb-prevalence-worries-medics-in-kagadi\/","title":{"rendered":"High TB Prevalence Worries Medics in Kagadi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4664 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/tb-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/tb-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/tb.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Kagadi General Hospital, one of the government health facilities in Kagadi District continues to register high numbers of patients testing positive to Tuberculosis [TB], a highly contagious lung disease.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital administrator Simon Peter Tumusiime says so far 400 patients have been diagnosed with susceptible TB and are receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Tumisiime says since the year began, the facility has been registering averagely between 20 to 30 patients diagnosed with TB monthly.<\/p>\n<p>She says the numbers are higher compared to what they registered last year.<\/p>\n<p>Tumusiime says there is a need to start tracking down where the TB patients come from and carry massive sensitization of the community so as to support the patients to adhere to their treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He says the hospital has come out with a comprehensive strategy of creating awareness for people to embrace testing for TB and have knowledge of how TB is transmitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale Kagadi General Hospital, one of the government health facilities in Kagadi District continues to register high numbers of patients testing positive to Tuberculosis [TB], a highly contagious lung disease. The hospital administrator Simon Peter Tumusiime says so far 400 patients have been diagnosed with susceptible TB and are receiving treatment. Tumisiime says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-health"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}