Synopsis



A person like Lydia Marcos with TB can transmit the disease through droplets when he coughs shouts or sings. Any person who inhales these droplets can become infected with TB.

It does not matter if a person is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, malnourished children and adults who are exposed to the TB bacteria are more at risk of developing the disease since their immune systems are weakened.

The health centers in our community are very rare. Anti-TB drugs are available in all rural health centers. Once a TB patient is identified, the medicines a patient will need to take daily for six to eight months are automatically allocated. Health officials said people have certain misconception about the disease.

They said TB is not caused by perspiration drying on ones back, by overexertion of fatigue. It is not cause by smoking or pollution, although they are risk factors. TB is also not transmitted through food or drink or using utensils. Some patient may stop their treatment after two months.

They don’t get better but they feel better. If you don’t do treatment properly, that will result in drugs resistance.

The tragedy also requires that health providers use the phlegm or sputum microscopy for diagnosis instead of more expensive x-ray.

As a sign of our worsening health problems here in our country we may use the give of the government as well to consume it very well. We are lucky because they are in a good health and a good place and environment.























Commentaries

Because of poverty many people died. And the cause of it is lack of health centers in many provinces and also the medicine can’t reach the very far province like Mindanao or the northern part of the country. Some of those peoples are need to reach the medicine that given by the government officials for those who can’t afford to buy their needing medicine. As a example of that is Lydia Marcos, she’s having and suffering from tuberculosis and because of lack of medicine and lack of nearer health centers she died according to the survey, 4 out of 10 Filipinos are died in tuberculosis, and 75 Filipinos in one day are died cause by tuberculosis.

And many Filipinos are encountering this problem of the government in our country. In the province there are lack of doctors and nurses to assist their needs to the health problems. And according to the World Health Organization or WHO, the ratio of the doctors and the patient is at 1:3 are the correct ratio. Because of this poor heath seeking behavior, TB afflicted people tend to ignore their illness until they are already in a bad state. Despite the reduction in the prevalence rate, there’s still a lot of work to be done.