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| The Ministry of Health has swiftly moved to address a stubborn TB case after People Daily highlighted George Chege’s (left) eight-year journey seeking treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). Specialists have already termed Chege’s case unusual, even as the patient who hails from Ndaragweti village in Sipiri, Laikipia County, is in search of answers to have the problem solved. “I want to live a normal life like other Kenyans,” Chege told People Daily during an interview recently.
After being vaccinated for tuberculosis as an infant in the Kenyan county of Nakuru, Carol Mburu assumed she was protected against the world’s deadliest infectious disease. However, her TB diagnosis at the age of 22 confirmed the Bacille Calmette-Guérin, or BCG, vaccine’s ineffectiveness in protecting her beyond childhood. The BCG vaccine — the only vaccine against TB — was introduced in 1921 and is one of the most widely administered vaccines in the world.
By Evaline Kibuchi Chief national coordinator Stop TB Partnership-Kenya It is slightly over a year since the first case of Covid-19 was reported in the country. It has claimed slightly over 3,000 lives. Over the period, tuberculosis (TB) will have claimed well over 32,000 lives. TB is the fourth leading killer among communicable diseases globally, claiming close to 4,000 lives daily.
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