KENYA THREATENED BY MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TB

There have been reports in the press that Kenya is under a threat from multi drug resistant strains of the tuberculosis disease. Reports say that there could be more than three hundred patients with multi drug resistant tuberculosis bacillus disease (TB) roaming the streets of the country

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 cities freely.

The estimates were taken according to the records at the Country's' main hospital in the capital called the Kenyatta national hospital. The said three hundred patients are those who managed to report in to that hospital for help but there could be more people suffering from this drug resistant strains of the disease in the Slums of the country's' cities and the villages.

This free and roaming patients are feared that they could be spreading this disease to the rest of the public in the country .They mix with other people in public places and ,there is a chance that they could infected them through the normal ways of infection by the disease.

This report was supported by the statistics that were given to the press by the doctors from the hospital.

There has been no formal report by the doctors so far that there is a hope for a remedy for the disease soon in the country or the availability of drugs such as the ones that are used by the acquired immune deffiency (AIDs) patients, the ones that are called the antiretroviral therapy (ARTs)

Kenya has been running an effective campaign to eradicate the disease through the ministry of health .The ministry has been trying very hard to educate the public about the disease and how to be safe from being infected by this disease. The ministry has been going up to the villages with the information about this disease just to make sure that every Kenyan has access to the information about this disease. These multi drug resistant strains of the disease have gone on top of these lists of the most dreaded disease after the HIV/AIDS disease.

Those who have already been infected with these strains of the disease have no hope of healing for there is still no effective drug against these strains of the disease.