THANE: Thane city falls underneath the top 10 cities in the state that gives tuberculosis (TB) care in keeping with a quarterly report of the government’s Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP).
Officials from the Thane civic health division stated that the rankings are executed on the foundation of five criteria — number of sufferers not suffering from the disease, notifying the government about TB sufferers from both private and non-private hospitals, engaging in HIV checks of sufferers, providing them the Cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification take a look at (CBNAAT) take a look at and giving them monetary receive advantages.
“We have round 4,770 sufferers in the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) space out of which round three,622 are drug sensitive sufferers and 1,148 drug resistant. Our success rate has been round 86 consistent with cent and we are hoping that it'll build up as we're lagging in the back of in terms of on-line updates. So a ways, we now have supplied round Rs 33 lakh advantages to sufferers suffering from TB and shall be giving out to extra sufferers. Also, we now have screened round 74 consistent with cent sufferers for HIV,” stated Dr Khushbu Taori, TB officer, TMC.
Officials of the health division added that the report is in response to details supplied by means of each city on the government’s on-line portal Nikshay, which helps to keep observe of TB sufferers in the nation.
“We are hoping to extend our ranking as we nonetheless have to update extra details of the sufferers and owing to technical errors we had been unable to do so. Also, as it becomes tough to stay a tab on sufferers who've migrated. We have larger our focal point even there in order that the percentage of success rate increases,” added Dr Taori.
Officials from the Thane civic health division stated that the rankings are executed on the foundation of five criteria — number of sufferers not suffering from the disease, notifying the government about TB sufferers from both private and non-private hospitals, engaging in HIV checks of sufferers, providing them the Cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification take a look at (CBNAAT) take a look at and giving them monetary receive advantages.
“We have round 4,770 sufferers in the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) space out of which round three,622 are drug sensitive sufferers and 1,148 drug resistant. Our success rate has been round 86 consistent with cent and we are hoping that it'll build up as we're lagging in the back of in terms of on-line updates. So a ways, we now have supplied round Rs 33 lakh advantages to sufferers suffering from TB and shall be giving out to extra sufferers. Also, we now have screened round 74 consistent with cent sufferers for HIV,” stated Dr Khushbu Taori, TB officer, TMC.
Officials of the health division added that the report is in response to details supplied by means of each city on the government’s on-line portal Nikshay, which helps to keep observe of TB sufferers in the nation.
“We are hoping to extend our ranking as we nonetheless have to update extra details of the sufferers and owing to technical errors we had been unable to do so. Also, as it becomes tough to stay a tab on sufferers who've migrated. We have larger our focal point even there in order that the percentage of success rate increases,” added Dr Taori.
Thane among top 10 in Maharashtra in TB care, states report
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