Amnesty-2012 - what threats it gives for the people at freedom?
Prisoners sick in tuberculosis are being waited by doctors of TB dispensaries after release, but not all of them agree to go to hospitals.
"Was any of your contacts recently released under the amnesty as well?" - a doctor of one of the regional tuberculosis dispensaries asked the mother who took her child there to check for tuberculosis. She did it just in case as there probably were contacts with a sick person.
Is the amnesty really that dangerous for the healthy people at freedom? Let us see this year's law "On Amnesty".
"To free from the penalty ... Disabled people of Groups I or II, as well as those patients with active tuberculosis assigned to I, II, V "A" or V "B" groups dispensary. "
If a person has an open type of TB, even a short stay with the patient threats a human’s health. Did the number of people willing to check what was the result of their meeting with a newly released relative or a neighbor really increased since the beginning of the amnesty? We asked this question to the Minsk regional TB dispensary.
Euroradio: The amnesty started, people go out of prisons, and there are quite many people sick in tuberculosis among them ...
Minsk regional TB dispensary: "Yes, yes! There's up to 90 percent! .. "
Euroradio: So, these people return home, healthy people contact them, then find out about the disease and go check out?
Minsk regional TB dispensary: "Adults do. They are sent to do ex-rays. After that, if a disease is revealed, they send us contacts of the children, like, this or that family has children, and then the kids are sent to us. "
Head of the informational and educational institution "Platform" Andrei Bandarenka denies the words that "there are 90% sick in tuberculosis". He says that the number is rather 20%. However, he is convinced that 90% of all patients with TB got this disease in prisons.
Nevertheless, doctors can forcibly pull a patient to the hospital only through the courts. If he has an open form of the disease, and does not treat it, drinks… Although TB dispensary in Mahileu claims that the amnesty did not increase the number of people willing to check their health, the doctors still advise to watch out.
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