TB or not TB: TB Story now Claimed to Be Made Up … Tourism at All Cost? … Big People Lie

Credibility is tough to regain. Initially Bon Dia Aruba broke the TBC story that a man had been infected and initially deported. Then yesterday Amigoe ran with the story as well that a man had been infected with TB last Saturday at Horacio Oduber Hospital. Now suddenly there was no TB infected individual and the story is claimed to be made up. Its a terrible thing when credibility is lost and as the Kalpoe’s mother said, “big people lie”. When one has a track record to cover up and avoid bad stories at all cost that might affect tourism there is a doubt placed in peoples minds as to agendas. Why would Bon Dia lie or make up such a claim?

ORANJESTAD – Amigoe reported in his edition of last Saturday that tbc-infection was detected in a man that has been straying illegally for quite some time in Aruba already.  Amigoe got this article from Bon Dia.  Spokesperson of Horacio Oduber Hospital (HOH), Bob Harms indicated this morning that the complete story is a concoction.

So what part of the story is made up? The fact the person was an illegal, that there was an attempted deportation or an actual TB infection? Not only did the original story state that a person was infected with TB, but also that there was an attempt to deport him as well. All is now being said to be not true, a hoax. A TB infection would be quite a scare to the tourism industry wouldn’t it? So Aruba has no crime, no date rape drugs, no murders, no TB and no Natalee Holloway.

That according to Bon Dia, the man was going to be deported, it also not true.  Rudolf Kelly, head of Instituto Alarma y Seguridad Aruba (IASA), says that his department doesn’t know anything about the deportation an illegal person with tbc.  Kelly says that entire story is a hoax. 

Is it any wonder why they have no tourism as well?

Amigoe; February 27, 2007: The story was completely made up: No tbc in Aruba 

ORANJESTAD – Amigoe reported in his edition of last Saturday that tbc-infection was detected in a man that has been straying illegally for quite some time in Aruba already.  Amigoe got this article from Bon Dia.  Spokesperson of Horacio Oduber Hospital (HOH), Bob Harms indicated this morning that the complete story is a concoction. 

“None of our specialist knows anything about this.  Besides, the hospital has a responsibility to maintain.  When one of our lung specialists has a slight suspicion that a patient has open or active tbc, that person is quarantined in the hospital, and not somewhere else.  As a precaution, the patient will also receive treatment immediately.”

It takes a minimum of 8 days to diagnose tbc, because it takes a lab test to confirm this.   

That according to Bon Dia, the man was going to be deported, it also not true.  Rudolf Kelly, head of Instituto Alarma y Seguridad Aruba (IASA), says that his department doesn’t know anything about the deportation an illegal person with tbc.  Kelly says that entire story is a hoax.