Dakshina Kannada district on Tuesday embarked on implementing revised national tuberculosis control programme (RNTCP) where TB patients will be administered the Directly Observed Treatment Short (DOTS ...

Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme invited applications for District PPM (Public Private Mix) Coordinator, Senior Treatment Supervisor (STS) and RNTCP Lab Technician / Sputum Microscopist ...

Having achieved global objectives of new case-detection of 70 per cent and treatment success rate of 85 per cent for the last three consecutive years, the Revised National Tuberculosis Control ...

A sensitisation programme for private doctors on the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in Ramanagara district by the government a few months ago, led to 90 per cent of them ...

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The tuberculosis department of the civil hospital released the payment of contractual workers under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) till December last year by taking a loan ...

In order to make Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) more broad based, the government has mandated certain private clinics to prescribe free TB drugs with support of the field ...

We have held talks with major drug companies in an effort to offer free medical facilities to tuberculosis patients in India, said Dr Ashok Kumar, deputy director general, Revised National TB Control ...

If there is already a long delay before TB patients in India start treatment, the Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy offered by India’s TB control programme does not make it easy ...

In 2013, India had about 2.7 million people with Tuberculosis, which is 23 per cent of the global burden of the disease. India also accounted for 27 per cent (760,000) of the world’s “missing” ...

For the past 3 consecutive years, the Government has been successful in achieving the global objectives of 70% new case detection and 85% treatment success rate and so NTCP will be revised. The ...

Dr Kalyan Krishna Velivela, Medical Coordinator, MSF specialises in TB, especially drug resistant TB and has recently returned from Uzbekistan which is one of the many countries in Asia with a high ...