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Meningitis spreads in Khurma amid denial
2019-01-16 18:01:00
By Abdul Karim Al-Dhiyabi
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF ? The residents of Al-Khurma have refuted the statements by the Department of Health Affairs in Taif denying the presence of meningitis cases in the town and said the fatal disease was spreading in the governorate.
A number of residents said some meningitis patients slipped into coma and were kept in isolation wards.
They criticized substandard response by staff at the Khurma Hospital, which they said had no resources to treat rising cases from an epidemic.
Majed Bin Jarwah, a resident, said his 43-year-old sister started complaining of severe headache and high fever but the doctor who treated her at the hospital diagnosed her case as common flu.
?My sister came again to the hospital with the same symptoms but the doctor said this time her case was serious and she had a nervous breakdown,? he said.
Jarwah said when his sister became comatose, the doctor consulted specialists in Taif General Hospital, who asked him to transfer her there.
?My sister was on the verge of death when she was admitted to the intensive care unit and her health condition deteriorated further,? he explained.
He said a week later his sister regained consciousness after meningitis had almost took her life.
Jarwah said this was sufficient evidence about the existence of meningitis in Al-Khurma despite the denial by the Health Affairs...
Meningitis spreads in Khurma amid denial
2019-01-16 18:01:00
By Abdul Karim Al-Dhiyabi
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF ? The residents of Al-Khurma have refuted the statements by the Department of Health Affairs in Taif denying the presence of meningitis cases in the town and said the fatal disease was spreading in the governorate.
A number of residents said some meningitis patients slipped into coma and were kept in isolation wards.
They criticized substandard response by staff at the Khurma Hospital, which they said had no resources to treat rising cases from an epidemic.
Majed Bin Jarwah, a resident, said his 43-year-old sister started complaining of severe headache and high fever but the doctor who treated her at the hospital diagnosed her case as common flu.
?My sister came again to the hospital with the same symptoms but the doctor said this time her case was serious and she had a nervous breakdown,? he said.
Jarwah said when his sister became comatose, the doctor consulted specialists in Taif General Hospital, who asked him to transfer her there.
?My sister was on the verge of death when she was admitted to the intensive care unit and her health condition deteriorated further,? he explained.
He said a week later his sister regained consciousness after meningitis had almost took her life.
Jarwah said this was sufficient evidence about the existence of meningitis in Al-Khurma despite the denial by the Health Affairs...