Jordan : Over 100 tuberculosis cases registered this year

Article via The Jordan Times, excerpt :

"  The Ministry of Health has registered 120 cases of tuberculosis (TB) since the beginning of this year among Jordanians and other nationals residing the Kingdom, excluding Syrians, a ministry official said on Thursday.

Khaled Abu Rumman, director of the National Programme to Stop TB, said 56 of these cases were foreigners living in the country, who “are still here receiving treatment”.

Meanwhile, 55 Syrian refugees in Jordan have been diagnosed with the disease since 2011, Abu Rumman added.

“We provide Syrian TB patients with medication, food and financial assistance, as we provide these services to any Jordanian who has the disease”, he told The Jordan Times.

He previously noted that the monthly cost of medication for each of these patients is JD150.

Last year, 330 TB cases were detected among Jordanians and 69 among non-Jordanians residing in the country, according to official figures."

Jordan : H1N1 total rises to 33

Via The Jordan Times :

" AMMAN : Fourteen new H1N1 influenza cases were confirmed on Wednesday, bringing to 33 the total number of cases in the Kingdom since the strand re-emerged earlier this month.

In a press statement issued yesterday, the health ministry said 14 newly confirmed cases have been reported, adding that 12 H1N1 patients have recovered from of the disease. Five patients are currently receiving treatment at home while 12 remain hospitalised, the statement added. No new H1N1 influenza-related deaths were reported.

Since its re-emergence on December 11, H1N1 flu has claimed the lives of four people in the country, prompting health authorities to implement a national plan prepared by the National Committee for the Prevention of Epidemics and issue weekly updates on the disease
Under the current treatment protocol, H1N1 patients who exhibit mild symptoms and do not fall under higher risk categories are treated at home without anti-viral or medical tests and go unreported, according to the ministry.

Those who suffer from chronic diseases, pregnant women, children and the elderly fall under the higher risk category."

Jordan : First H1N1 fatality reported

Via The Jordan Times :

" AMMAN : A 32-year-old man diagnosed with H1N1 flu died on Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Health.

The patient, who checked into a hospital on Monday, was in critical condition, the ministry said in its weekly report issued yesterday.

After laboratory tests confirmed he was infected with the H1N1 virus, the patient was taken to the intensive care unit, put under constant medical observation and given the necessary treatment, but he died yesterday, the statement said.

The ministry said this was the seventh recorded case of H1N1 since the first one was reported earlier this month. The cases range from critical to moderate, with the latter receiving treatment at home, according to the report.

On December 12, Minister of Health Mahmoud Sheyyab announced that authorities had detected a new H1N1 case in the Kingdom, a woman in her 50s who was being treated at a private hospital."