Nii Nortey Hanson-Nortey, MB.Ch.B, MPH

Nii Nortey Hanson-Nortey, MB.Ch.B, MPH replied to "Infectious Dose of TB" in the TB Infection Control community.

Dear Prof Mehtar, I must confess that we have not done anything extra ordinary that to just continue to hammer into the heads of our care providers the need to observe standard precautions in their work. We have now introduced a module of airborne and TB infection control into our national infection prevention and control policy document and are yet to disseminate it round the country. But we have been teaching our care providers simple ...

Nii Nortey Hanson-Nortey, MB.Ch.B, MPH replied to "Infectious Dose of TB" in the TB Infection Control community.

Dear All, I must confess that I have learnt a lot over these 2 weeks that this discussion on TB infection has been going on. I am very excited that Prof Mehtar is raising all the very important questions and Paul J, Ed and Prof First are all responding to the issues. The discussion as it is going on is presenting very practical issues with regards to the transmission of TB in all settings. Lots ...

Nii Nortey Hanson-Nortey, MB.Ch.B, MPH replied to "Infectious Dose of TB" in the TB Infection Control community.

Dear Prof Mehtar and All, Sorry I have been 'out of coverage area' for a while now but continuing from where the discussion left off: Here in Ghana we are pushing the practice of standard precautions and it has served most health workers well. The practice of these simple principles seem to have made our TB clinics very safe. The few cases of TB transmission to health workers seem to have occurred in health workers ...

Nii Nortey Hanson-Nortey, MB.Ch.B, MPH replied to "infection control in the case of A H1N1 influenza" in the TB Infection Control community.

Dear Prof. Mehtar, I believe that this is a good platform to break the news about the upcoming 1st African IPC Congress. I must say that it is refreshing to know that at long last we now have a forum to discuss IPC issues in Africa. The rest of the world has gone ahead of us but we have not necessarily been left behind! We are coming up strong! Thank you for all the work ...

Nii Nortey Hanson-Nortey, MB.Ch.B, MPH started a discussion "Overview of Airborne Infections and and Control Strategies" in the TB Infection Control community.

Thanks Prof. Nardell for the presentation. Nii