TUBERCULOSIS remains prevalent in the country – with some 40 new cases each day – because foreign workers bring the disease in along with HIV, hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases.
Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad said despite being certified “healthy” by clinics in their home countries, between 2% and 4% of the workers had been found to be infected in the random checks by the Foreign Workers Medical Examination Monitoring Agency (Fomema).
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