TB alarm at Gaborone First offenders

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An inmate who has recently been hospitalised at Princess Marina Hospital is at the centre of a health scare at the First Offenders Prison in Gaborone. Warders say that despite their complaints, it took management months before the inmate, whom they claim is infected with tuberculosis, to be isolated.

Only two weeks ago that the prisoner was taken to Marina where he is in isolation.
"Right now we could be infected because this prisoner mingled with us for a long time when it was clear that he had TB," says a warder.

The spokesperson of the Botswana Prisons Service, senior superintendent Wamorena Ramolefhe, said that he could not disclose the medical history of prisoners because that would be in breach of ethics.

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