70 deaths a day: The disease wreaking havoc in an island nation
Like other slums in the Tondo area of Manila, Philippines, there’s no clean water supply or sanitation.Residents pay to fill water containers from a nearby condominium, and trenches funnel sewage into a blackened river.
Every spare centimetre has been claimed - alleyways between the two-storey shacks are barely shoulder-width, and the air is stagnant.
Disease proliferates, including tuberculosis (TB), which is caused by a bacterium that usually attacks the lungs, and spreads through the air, including when an infected person coughs or speaks.
Not everyone infected develops TB disease, but the death rate for those who do is about 50 per cent, if no treatment is given.
The grandfather in this extended household died with TB in 2020, during Covid-19 lockdowns.
Now, one of his sons is sick. His TB was identified through free screening provided by the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières charity.
Its medical team are visiting the home to start two 3-year-olds and a 6-year-old on a preventative course of drugs.
Among them is a New Zealander, Jessa Pontevedra, who is medical coordinator for an ambitious and ground-breaking programme combating TB in Tondo.
Director: Mike Scott
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