Nunavut picks Cape Dorset for third TB screening clinic – Nunatsiaq News

January 09, 2019

Two previous clinics have proven to be an effective way to screen, treat TB, GN says

The Government of Nunavut has picked the location of the territory’s third community-wide tuberculosis screening clinic.

Cape Dorset will host the next community screening starting in February, the GN said in a Jan. 8 release.

Nunavut’s first community screening clinic was hosted in Qikiqtarjuaq last January, where about 10 per cent of the community was estimated to be infected with TB.

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