>> narrator: nokubheka has been at the tb hospital for almost six months.sputum tests negative for the tuberculosis bacteria, she'll soon be able to leave the hospital and continue her treatment at home. >> hi, noku, how are you? >> i'm fine. >> i'm fine. how have you been doing? huh? i hear you've been vomiting. how's the vomiting now? how's the medication going? are you taking your medication every day? at the same time? correctly? yes. and do you report when you vomit? >> and having that chronic lung disease has its own problems in terms of, you know, functioning. but i cannot ignore the fact that the treatment has got severe side effects as well, which makes it quite difficult for patients to adhere to the treatment. >> narrator: nokubheka's daily injection, amikacin, is a 40-year-old drug that has severe side effects. it can cause serious kidney problems, as well as nerve damage that can lead to permanent deafness. >> how are the ears? >> narrator: the rules on how far apart beds have to be to reduce the risk of cross- infection mean that despite its s

patients are told to test for hiv, hepatitis and tb, the state department of health is investigating. the hospital says it has fixed the problem and brought in a doctor to evaluate the situation. >> it is deadline day for people to sign up for health insurance. chase cain is in the newsroom with what you need to know. >> one of our producers brought me an update that the federal health care website health care gott gov is experiencing problems this morning. people are going to the site and getting error messages due to the heavy amount of traffic of people racing to beat the deadline now less than 19 hours away you have only until midnight tonight to sign up for health care. the good news is that you do have a couple of weeks on the other side of that, until april 15 to sign up. sorry to finish the application, if you start that sign-up process today. we already have more than 1.1 million in the state who have signed up for health care through covered california but that leaves nearly 2 million people in the state without health insurance and many may be racing to start that application today. the