Doctors and other health care workers who provide care for patients with TB, must follow infection control procedures to ensure that TB infection is not passed from one person to another. Every country should have infection control guidance which clearly needs to take into account local facilities and resources, as well as the numbers of people being provided with care. However, infection control guidance must not only be written but also implemented.
It is not just in resource poor countries that TB transmission occurs in hospitals. In 2012 it was reported that a patient in the UK had become infected with TB and had died, as a result of receiving kidney dialysis when sitting next to another patient with infectious TB.6
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