Review of Primary Care Practice and Education (Kajian Praktik dan Pendidikan Layanan Primer)
Vol 1, No 3 (2018): September

Case Report: Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB)

Aswita Damayanti (Puskesmas Kaligesing Purworejo, Purworejo, Central Java, Indonesia)
Alfi Raudatil Jannah (Department of Family and Community Medicine
Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Dec 2018

Abstract

...................... The patient lived with her husband, her three children, and a very old mother-in-law. The patient was the first child of 2 siblings with a history of spontaneous birth and was assisted by a birth attendant with cry spontaneously. Her mother-in-law had the same history of the disease, i.e., the first category of pulmonary TB. Her mother-in-law was treated at the primary health care facility for six months and was declared cured by the primary health care facility ten years ago. Her sister-in-law also suffered from the third category of pulmonary TB and did not regularly take the medication, and she died two years ago. The patients have a history of miscarriage once, which was during her fourth pregnancy. Her mother and father were Javanese. The patient's husband worked as a laborer on a coconut farm. So, the income was uncertain every day. The patient came from the lower socio-economic class, so the patient had health insurance for low-income people or JAMKESMAS (Health Coverage). The patient's social relationship with the community was not good because the neighborhood marginally ostracized the patient's family due to her family history which suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis........................

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Journal Info

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rpcpe

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Education Health Professions Medicine & Pharmacology Public Health

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The Review of Primary Care Practice and Education is a bilingual open access journal which provides scientific information on the field of ‘Primary Care’ and ‘Family Medicine’ in the form of research-based scientific articles, case reports, policy briefs and new findings from experts, ...