Hundreds have queued for tuberculosis screenings in Llanelli following an outbreak of the disease in the area.
Public Health Wales confirmed recently there had been 29 known cases of TB in the Llwynhendy area of Llanelli, since 2010 including one death in 2018.
Last week around 80 residents and people who frequent the Joiners Arms - a pub linked to the outbreak - were invited to attend screenings as they had been identified as 'contacts' of the confirmed TB cases.
Margaret Pegler, 64, died in September 2018 just five days after she was diagnosed with TB. She had been complaining of symptoms for three months but they were not picked up by doctors.
Public health officials have begun screening people in South Wales who were regulars in the Joiners Arms in Llywnhendy, near Llanelli, after 29 cases of tuberculosis were identified in the area since 2010 leading to one fatality in 2018
Long queues were spotted outside the Llywnhendy Health Centre where people were invited to get screened for the potentially fatal disease
Health officials want to screen anyone who may have been in contact with those who contracted TB in this latest outbreak
Margaret Pegler, 64, who died last year five days after she was diagnosed with TB was not a regular at the bar, but visited occasionally for food.
She fell ill last June after suffering a persistent cough and night sweats but doctors failed to immediately identify her condition as tuberculosis.
Mrs Pegler was diagnosed with TB on September 14, 2018 but her condition worsened and she died just five days later.
Her daughter Joanna, 43, said: 'She should never have gone. She should never have died ever - not from that.'
Margaret Pegler, 64, pictured, died five days after she was diagnosed with TB last September. She had been complaining of symptoms for the previous three months but they were not picked up by medics
Mrs Pegler's family say they were 'disgusted' at her failed diagnosis.
Joanna said: 'We have put a complaint into the hospital. We want answers from it all.'
Health officials are now carrying out up to 700 screenings after villagers rushed for testing.
Shaun Greaney, who lives in Llwynhendy, said he was 'concerned' the community didn't know about the outbreak sooner.
'It shouldn't have been left to get to this stage where so many people have had to turn up to get checked out and it has caused alarm in the community
'Why has it taken so long for them to tell us?'
Vikki Rees, who used to work in the village said she wanted to be screened for 'peace of mind'.
'We thought it is best to get tested to avoid any further concern.
'They have put the right things in place now to prevent future spreading of TB.'
Llwynhendy is between Llanelli and Swansea in south Wales
Public Health Wales wrote to 80 villagers from Llwynhendy asking them to attend screenings but also urged customers and employees of the Joiners Arms between 2005 and 2018 to get checked.
They also said adults who have been in the same room for more than eight hours as someone with TB, within four months before the person with TB was diagnosed and treated should be tested.
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