Jose Pearson Hospital
latest news & developmentsTB patients used illness to scare off guards
More than 30 tuberculosis (TB) patients used their illness to scare security and nursing personnel as they ran away from a hospital in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape health…
Eastern Cape TB patients return to hospital
At least 21 drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) patients — who ran away from a Port Elizabeth hospital last week — returned on the weekend, Eastern Cape health spokesperson Sizwe…
TB patients stage E Cape hospital breakout
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) patients have again staged a mass breakout from Port Elizabeth’s TB hospital. The Eastern Cape health department’s Sizwe Kupelo said on Sunday…
Search for TB patients continues
Eastern Cape authorities were still searching for 29 tuberculosis (TB) patients who escaped from the Jose Pearson Hospital in the Nelson Mandela municipality, after twenty…
TB patients make a run for it
Eastern Cape authorities are searching for TB patients who escaped from the Jose Pearson Hospital in the Nelson Mandela municipality. The Eastern Cape Health department said it…
Eastern Cape hit by rise in TB
The Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan area is grappling with an increasing number of tuberculosis (TB) cases, with about 250 new patients being admitted to the Livingstone and Dora…