Revised National TB Control Programme, directorate of Health & Family Welfare Kohima held its 4th Quarterly Review Meeting (QRP) cum annual review meeting on March 15 at IDSP conference hall.
State TB officer (RNTCP) director of Health And Family Welfare, Dr. K.T. Lotha reviewed the performance of the programme stating that during the year 2015 the state has achieved 89% cure rate and case detection rate of 85% which is well above the national target of 85% and 70% respectively. He also highlighted that the cumulative achievement since inception of the programme in the State, wherein patients initiated on basic DOTS treatment is 40,562(2002-2015), co-infected TB HIV is 1139(2008-2015) and total number of MDR TB patients diagnosed is 417(2012-2015).
Others who spoke in the programme were NE consultant Dr.Silajit Sarkar who stressed on the importance of early diagnosis of TB and drug resistant TB by utilizing the latest genetic technology of CBNAAT which has been already provided to the state and putting patients on treatment early so that death due to TB comes down to zero and additional director, Dr.John Sweyievisa, who lauded the programme for its overall achievement and also shared his about the hardships faced by each district while carrying out the various assignment. He further encouraged the district officers to perform their roles despite the limitation in the health set up.