The case between the Western Cape health department and three surviving XDR-TB patients has been postponed until June 3 next year, the SABC reported on Thursday.
The Cape High Court was to have ruled on the finality of an interim order preventing the patients from leaving the Brooklyn Chest Hospital until they had been cured of XDR-TB. On Thursday both parties agreed to a postponement.
The interim order would stand, meaning the patients would have to remain in the hospital until June 2008.
Provincial Health Minister Pierre Uys, who welcomed the court's decision, said the patients would remain in isolation.
The Legal Aid Board, which represents the three surviving patients, declined to give interviews, saying the matter was sub-judice. It said in a brief statement that it had filed a counter-application together with the trio's answering affidavits.
Health authorities have refused to identify the patients to protect their privacy. Another who ran away from the hospital had returned.
The deadly strain of TB has claimed dozens of lives in the Western Cape so far. - Sapa
The Cape High Court was to have ruled on the finality of an interim order preventing the patients from leaving the Brooklyn Chest Hospital until they had been cured of XDR-TB. On Thursday both parties agreed to a postponement.
The interim order would stand, meaning the patients would have to remain in the hospital until June 2008.
Provincial Health Minister Pierre Uys, who welcomed the court's decision, said the patients would remain in isolation.
The Legal Aid Board, which represents the three surviving patients, declined to give interviews, saying the matter was sub-judice. It said in a brief statement that it had filed a counter-application together with the trio's answering affidavits.
Health authorities have refused to identify the patients to protect their privacy. Another who ran away from the hospital had returned.
The deadly strain of TB has claimed dozens of lives in the Western Cape so far. - Sapa
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