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Many patients who have been discharged from hospital and continue their treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in outpatient settings or their caregivers come at the end of each month to the TB dispensaries to receive the social vouchers worth 80 Lei per month. In August, we went to the Outpatient Health Facility on Salc\u00e2milor Street to ask patients how they cope with their disease.<\/p>\n
Ionu\u021b Dumitru, 41, retired due to disease.<\/strong> Mihaela Andrei, 47, mother of a 20-year old woman diagnosed with MDR TB in June<\/strong> Mirela Stamate, 43, wife of patient diagnosed with MDR for the second time<\/strong> *The names in this issue are fictional; we decided to change them at the patients\u2019 request.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many patients who have been discharged from hospital and continue their treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in outpatient settings or their caregivers come at the end of each month to the TB dispensaries to receive the social vouchers worth 80 Lei per month. In August, we went to the Outpatient Health Facility on Salc\u00e2milor Street to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-tb.raa.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-tb.raa.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-tb.raa.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-tb.raa.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-tb.raa.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/control-tb.raa.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/control-tb.raa.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-tb.raa.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-tb.raa.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-tb.raa.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cEvery day I experience the same symptoms, vertigo, nausea. When it\u2019s hot outside, it\u2019s terrible. The only thing that motivates me to keep taking the treatment is the fear of giving the disease to someone else, in particular at home. For me, the effects of the treatment are a nightmare. And there, in the hospital, I saw fellow patients throwing the drugs away. I\u2019m better, because I\u2019m at home I don\u2019t have to put up with the stress in the hospital. My income is 460 Lei, it\u2019s not enough for anything. With the vouchers I can buy about 15 % of all that I need.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOn Easter, in April, she coughed and told me she felt a taste of blood in her mouth. We both thought that it was from a tooth, because otherwise she had no symptoms. Then, a month later, the fever started. We don\u2019t know where she took it from, it\u2019s true that she used the metro and the trolley bus to go to college, but she always hanged around kids from good families. She is in great pain, her whole body hurts, especially the soles of her feet. We use the vouchers for vegetables and fruits. Every day I make her beet, celery or carrot juices. Her emotional state is poor, she is always crying. Now she is in her third college year but she missed the summer exam session and, as a result, she lost her state-subsidised tuition.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe has had this problem for many years, ever since he was in prison, which is where he got sick in the first place. The disease relapsed seven years ago because his immune system is weak. He underwent surgery for stomach cancer and he also has two herniated discs. I was also ill twice, but my system is better and I haven\u2019t had problems that needed medication. We have two pensions that together amount to 600 lei. We work sometimes, I clean people\u2019s houses and he repairs sockets or water taps from time to time. We also have a 15-year old daughter. We keep on giving her immuno-stimulants and medicines so that she doesn\u2019t get sick. For us, the vouchers are really helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n