In demand of drugs, TB patients on hunger strike Print E-mail
Written by Hilary Vasco Wiagbe   
Friday, 20 March 2009

Some patients at the TB Annex in Congo Town say they have begun an indefinite hunger strike in demand of drugs.

The patients told Star Radio they have not received the requisite drugs for the past four months. 

According to the patients, they were informed that they had become immune to the regular TB drugs and would a new type of drugs. 

They said the Management of the Leprosy and Tuberculosis Control Program promised to get the requisite drugs for them but has not done so. 

The patients vowed not to eat until their situation was addressed, regardless of the consequences. 

They appealed to government and its health partners to ensure that the requisite drugs are brought in the country to remedy their conditions. 

Meanwhile, the management of the NLTP confirmed that few patients have not received the requisite drugs for the past four months.   

Deputy Program Manager, Dedeh Bar-Kesselly told Star Radio after months of treatment it appeared that the patients were not responding to treatment. 

Mrs. Bar-Kesselly said the patients’ specimen was taken to the United States for laboratory test and it was found that they develop resistance to TB drugs currently in the country. 

She said government and its partners are making frantic efforts to ensure that the requisite drugs are brought in the country to treat the few patients.  

The Leprosy and Tuberculosis Control Program Manager however, disclosed that the patients are at the moment being given what she called supplementary drugs. 

Mrs. Bar-Kesselly has urged the patients to disregard their hunger strike as they have not been forgotten.      

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