Patient stories

A TBC-patient tells her story.

“I HOPE MY CHILDREN WILL HAVE A GREAT LIFE”

The Kyrgyz family of Zarina got hit hard by extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). The mother of five children first lost her husband due to XDR-TB. She herself and her two youngest sons Nursultan and Danyar also fell ill with this form of drug-resistant TB.

Thirteen years ago, Pieter became infected with multi-resistant bacteria after undergoing surgery in a foreign hospital.

“I´M GLAD I CAN STILL WALK”

In August 2010, Pieter was involved in a serious car accident when he was on a business trip to the Middle East. Because he was sitting exactly where the car collided head-on with another vehicle, he was seriously injured. Pieter was admitted to a hospital where he was placed in a medically induced coma and operated on his right upper leg, hand and various open wounds. In this hospital he became infected with a multi-resistant bacteria known as Klebsiella pneumoniae.