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Soroti hospital records spike in number Hepatitis B patients

By Suzan Nanjala Soroti Hospital regional referral hospital administration has expressed concern over a spike in new cases of Hepatitis B registered at the facility. The coordinator emergency treatment Dr Athanasius Ariengu, currently they have over 200 patients being handled at the hepatitis B clinic which is conducted every Tuesday. He notes that due to this growing number of patients, the clinic sometimes runs short of drugs, affecting patient viral load suppression. Hepatitis B is a serious liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). For most people, hepatitis B is short term, also called acute, and lasts less than six months. But for others, the infection becomes chronic, meaning it lasts more than six months. According to health […]

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