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Tuberculosis may be on the rise again

WHAT a coincidence!

Just as I scramble to compose a piece for my next column, I find myself being advised by Dr. Danielle Yvonne Vinas of the Antipolo Hospital System, Annex IV, to seek admission for pulmonary procedure. Under the lady doctor's regular watch as patient in the hemodialysis unit of the hospital over the past two years, I had been lately observed to experience a constant lowering of oxygen consumption. Administration of medical oxygen during my thrice weekly dialysis sessions would not seem to cure the deficiency. It's been only lately that Dr. Vinas finally decided to put me on continuous admission to check what's wrong with my respiratory system. So, after my first-shift dialysis session that Monday, instead of being sent home, I was made to go through the hospital admission process.