The Directorate of Chest Diseases and the Health of Expatriates revealed the discovery of a number of suspected with tuberculosis cases among migrant workers in paint factories south of Amman, who were transferred to treatment after undergoing medical examinations until they were deported to their countries.
The directorate said that, last month, it carried out tests for 70 migrant workers and underwent an subcutaneous examination for seven of them, which proved the illness of one Bengali, who was transferred to treatment, and then sent to his country after reaching the negative situation (when the ill becomes directly non-contagious).
The Ministry of Health has revealed since the beginning of this year the registration of 119 cases of tuberculosis and non-pneumonia by 33 infected people among the expatriates, who were deported to their home lands after treatment and after the improvement of their situation to the negative degree of negative.
The Public Health Act, requires that migrant workers have to obtain a medical certificate confirming that they are free of diseases from their country of origin. Thus, they must undergo the necessary examinations once they enter the kingdom. A new committee for medical examinations of expatriate workers has been established to diagnose hepatitis (B) and (C), according to the worker's occupation.
The new procedure has also introduced the hepatitis C screening in the schedule of domestic workers to be spread in the health directorates and chest diseases centres in the governorates.
The workers coming to work in the kingdom are being subjected to several tests, including radiographs to examine tuberculosis, sputum and AIDS.
In this context, the figures revealed that the national program to combat tuberculosis has recently registered 460 new cases of tuberculosis including 182 infections between Jordanians and 278 between the expatriates of different nationalities.
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