Question NW3097 to the Minister of Health
23 September 2015 - NW3097
Kalyan, Ms SV to ask the Minister of Health
(1)Whether his department has identified certain areas as tuberculosis hot spots; if so, which areas have been identified; (2) what criteria were used to identify the specified areas as tuberculosis hot spots?
Reply:
(1) The Department has identified 17 districts as TB hotpsots for enhanced intervention (See Table 1).
Table 1: TB hotspots
|
Province |
TB Hotspots Districts |
|
Eastern Cape |
Buffalo City |
|
Cacadu |
|
|
Chris Hani |
|
|
Free Sate |
Lejweleputswa |
|
Gauteng |
Johannesburg Metro |
|
West Rand |
|
|
KwaZulu Natal |
eThekwini |
|
Limpopo |
Sekhukhune |
|
Waterberg |
|
|
Mpumalanga |
Ehlanzeni |
|
North West |
Bojanala |
|
Dr Kenneth Kaunda |
|
|
Western Cape |
City of Cape Town |
|
West Coast |
(2) The following criteria were used to identify TB hotspots:
- Number of people diagnosed with TB (exceeding 5,000 per year);
- Treatment success (below 80%);
- Defaulter Rate (exceeding 6.2%);
- Death Rate (exceeding 5.6%);
- Transferred Out Rate (exceeding 2.4%);
- Drug resistant TB burden;
- High concentration of (especially gold) mining
END.