Brisbane TB clinic to remain open

QUEENSLAND Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has shrugged off claims he blundered by trying to shut the state's Tuberculosis Control Centre in Brisbane - a decision the government has reversed.

Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says the government's backflip on closing the TB centre at the Princess Alexandra Hospital is a huge win for medical professionals providing treatment to control the disease.

"But the simple fact is that these health professionals at the frontline of protecting Queenslanders from a major outbreak of this fatal illness should not have had to go into battle in the first place," Ms Palaszczuk said in a statement.

"Mr Springborg simply made the wrong decision.

"He made a decision that was based on cutting costs rather than putting the threat of a serious disease first. I'm pleased that he has seen the error of his ways."

After the government announced plans to decentralise TB services under a shake-up of Queensland Health, the Queensland Nurses Union warned it would result in some cases falling through the cracks.

A spokesman for Mr Springborg said there will be no reduction in frontline services to treat TB, which will continue to be treated in the same way as other diseases.

"We do not have a specific influenza centre or an HIV/AIDs centre," the spokesman told AAP.

He said local health boards would provide clinical diagnosis, management and public health follow-up of people with TB infection.

Shadow Health Minister Jo-Ann Miller said that Mr Springborg skirted around the issue of the closure during his evidence before estimates hearings last week, failing to provide sound reasons why it should be closed.

"This closure would have been an absolute disaster for health care in Queensland," Mrs Miller said.

"Mr Springborg's original decision was based on ignorance of a disease that threatens lives and has the real potential to rapidly spread to epidemic proportions."

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