The Nunatsiavut Government’s Department of Health and Social Development (DHSD) is working with the Labrador- Grenfell Regional Health Authority on Tuberculosis (TB) to immediately implement a series of public health measures in Nain, NL.
The NL Department of Health and Community Services has just confirmed that the probable cause of death of a 14 year old boy from Nain last Sunday, March 18 was tuberculosis.
Johannes Lampe, President of the Nunatsiavut Government (NG), was in our studio today.
We also had Sylvia Doody, the Director of Health Services for DHSD, and Tina Buckle, the Community Health Coordinator for NG on the phone.
Labrador Grenfell Health says contact tracing is underway and as a precautionary measure, TB treatments may be prescribed to those at risk.
To hear more, as Doody, Buckle and Lampe share information on what measures are being taken in regard to the confirmation of TB in Nain, click HERE.