A few weeks ago a colleague who had a bad cough went to a local hospital after a clinic she was getting treatment failed to cure the cough.She was strong and when she got tested the doctors advised her to get admitted for more test...she was there for only 4 days the 5th day she was gone.Thats when I realized how deadly pneumonia can be. Yesterday another lady was rushed to KNH after another local hospital was unable to 'handle' the disease.I have heard numerous cases of this disease and I am worried that most local hospital are unable to effectively treat this disease.They dish out antibiotics for every cough I wonder how many people die because of this haphazard care.
Check how Wikipedia describes its cause.
Quote:Pneumonia is due primarily to infections, with less common causes including irritants and the unknown. Although more than one hundred strains of microorganisms can cause pneumonia, only a few are responsible for most cases. The most common types of infectious agents are viruses and bacteria, with its being less commonly due to fungi or parasites. Mixed infections with both viruses and bacteria may occur in up to 45% of infections in children and 15% of infections in adults. A causative agent is not isolated in approximately half of cases despite careful testing.The term pneumonia is sometimes more broadly applied to inflammation of the lung (for example caused by autoimmune disease, chemical burns or drug reactions), however this is more accurately referred to as pneumonitis.
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