TB Outbreak at UK School
THERE’S been an outbreak of tuberculosis at Birmingham’s Birchfield Independent School for Girls.
Health officials said 30 pupils at the school, which teaches an Islamic curriculum, had tested positive for TB.
The school, in Beacon Hill, Aston, confirmed the outbreak but has refused to comment further.
Are we going backwards?
May 1st, 2008 at 7:13 am
After the initial breakout of TB at the school which was in July 2007, Other pupils were tested positive in December. It took the Birmingham Primary care trust and the public health authority another 3 months before they stepped into the school to test some pupils which was in mid March. The rest were tested in April. Certainly, I feel there has been neglect in safeguarding the rest of the pupils in time. There needs to be an independent inquiry into the matter. Dr Andrew Rouse said to a parent that this was the way the matter would be dealt with in any other school or place and that he just found out about it a month ago. So are all the pupils at other schools in Birmingham who have pupils testing positive going to wait around for an outbreak before the rest are protected. There needs to be a better system in place, we are going backwards in the way we deal with it.