Comments on: TB Outbreak at UK School http://www.anorak.co.uk/twitterings/183480.html Tabloid news for broadsheet readers Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:09:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ayesha http://www.anorak.co.uk/twitterings/183480.html#comment-303650 Ayesha Thu, 01 May 2008 06:13:30 +0000 http://www.anorak.co.uk/twitterings/183480.html#comment-303650 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. 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.

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