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Tuberculosis patient held in a Phoenix hospital's jail ward

Healthcare Security Weekly, April 16, 2007

A Russian born man, with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis (TB), has been confined in a Phoenix hospital's prison ward since July when a judge ordered him held indefinitely as a threat to community health, reported USA Today. The man disobeyed doctors' instructions to wear a face mask in public, according to court documents.

 

The 27-year-old man remains in a kind of legal limbo-not charged with a crime, yet held in the Maricopa Medical Center's jail ward. This week, however, the country sheriff told jailers to give the man back a TV they confiscated from him in February and a court hearing is scheduled on motions by his court-appointed attorney to improve conditions of his confinement.

 

The man has a drug-resistant type of TB, which is a growing problem in Russia, Central Asia, China, and India.

 

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