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Doctor sparks TB scare at RLI
Published Date: 02 September 2010
AROUND 450 staff and patients at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary have been checked for tuberculosis after a doctor contracted the disease.
GPs sent letters to patients after the male doctor was diagnosed and patients are undergoing x-rays. The process is still ongoing and bosses expect 150 people will be examined.
Around 300 members of staff have also been checked for signs of TB.
The doctor received treatment at the RLI but a spokeswoman for the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust said it could not disclose how he contracted the disease or how he is now for reasons of 'patient confidentiality'.
But she said that the diagnosis, which was made in May, was not linked to the death of a male patient who was admitted to the RLI with undiagnosed TB earlier this year...
Doctor sparks TB scare at RLI
Published Date: 02 September 2010
AROUND 450 staff and patients at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary have been checked for tuberculosis after a doctor contracted the disease.
GPs sent letters to patients after the male doctor was diagnosed and patients are undergoing x-rays. The process is still ongoing and bosses expect 150 people will be examined.
Around 300 members of staff have also been checked for signs of TB.
The doctor received treatment at the RLI but a spokeswoman for the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust said it could not disclose how he contracted the disease or how he is now for reasons of 'patient confidentiality'.
But she said that the diagnosis, which was made in May, was not linked to the death of a male patient who was admitted to the RLI with undiagnosed TB earlier this year...