Ministry of Health records 67 AIDS cases among migrant workers

Amman The Ministry of Health recorded 67 AIDS cases among expatriates for whom the Ugandan nationality was 25 cases and Egyptian nationality, 10 cases in the first 11 months of 2018.

Dr. Ibrahim Badwan, Director of the Pulmonary and Expatriate Health Directorate, said that the preventive measures and procedures put in place in the Directorate had uncovered more than 199 cases of tuberculosis among expatriates, including 25 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis.

The Directorate recorded 63 cases of liver disease in which Ugandans and Filipinos were most affected by 15 and 14, respectively.
He explained to Petra that all the injuries had been recorded by the county and governorate departmental inspectors, who are part of the routine examination procedures to complete the residency procedures, on 33,344 examiners and by the revision of the Direction and its affiliated centers.

He pointed out that Jordan has become one of the ten least populous countries with a tuberculosis prevalence rate of 2.3 Jordan per 100,000 population, while the rate was 4.75 per 100,000 population. for Jordanians and expatriates by 2017, noting that the Directorate was working to achieve a rate of 1 percent by 2025. The number of tuberculosis patients from Jordan during the same period was 119 Jordanians (pulmonary and non-pulmonary).

Badwan added that the most dangerous cases for the security of the community are undocumented and undocumented refugees and workers in Jordan, who are not accommodated or who do not carry out the required medical examinations while avoiding certain offices. to recruit workers after these tests.

He added that development measures, strategies and plans had a considerable impact on the implementation of preventive measures, despite the lack of frameworks and the cost of treatments and procedures, noting that modernization continued to provide the Direction all requirements and medical personnel, in addition to improving the quality and safety of health care services and improve the monitoring of communicable diseases Field research.

He added that the high cost of treatment and follow-up of TB patients in general between Syrian refugees and expatriates affected the tuberculosis control program in several ways, in addition to its indirect effect on the increase in the number of cases discovered at the time. over the next few years. Among the Syrian refugees wounded.