Tuberculosis Infection and Disease and Poverty

Introduction

A 28 years old male patient come with the complaint of cough, shortness of breath and high grade fever since from last 2 weeks admitted in private ward with a preventive isolation. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He was a chain smoker smoking almost 1 packet a day. He haspast medical history of upper respiratory tract infection. His family has such as no any history. The social history of patient is that he was working in Pall Mall Company since from the 14 years. According to functional health pattern his suffering nutrition imbalance, sleep disturbance, role relation is uncomforted and his sexual reproductive health is also disturbed.Tuberculosis Infection and Disease and Poverty

On set assessment vital signs of patients is blood pressure is 130/90 mmhg, pulse is 96 beats per min, respiration is 28/min and where he has a fever with 102˚F. The rationale behind selecting tuberculosis is that, this is the most common communicable disease in world and the prevalence of tuberculosis is Pakistan, with an expected 510 000 new TB cases rising every year and roughly 15 000 creating drug safe TB cases each year and its considered a very common issue among people and one of the key purposes behind development of medication protection type of TB include, delays in conclusion, unsupervised, unseemly and insufficient medication regimens, poor development and absence of a social help program for high chance the people live in Pakistan.

Tuberculosis is now a days become the most harmful disease and its mortality rate is increasing among Pakistan greater than before, this is just because of people who don’t taking it serious and they are not taking any action against this disease to overcome it. It’s a bacterial disease which is caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis which can grow in any part of the body involving organs bones lymph nodes adrenal gland kidney and in brain over meninges and can be spread throughout of the body