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TB Thousands Slip Out of Sight
March 24, 2008
India’s DOTS programme, specially designed to prevent people from skipping or giving up treatment of tuberculosis, lost track of more than 35,000 patients last year, government figures released today have revealed.
The DOTS (directly observed treatment short-course) programme, launched in India nine years ago, was aimed at ensuring that every tuberculosis patient completes the full six-month course of treatment typically involving four drugs.
It relies on a nationwide network of 12,000 laboratories, 261 medical colleges and 17,000 private practitioners to detect TB in sputum. An army of 200,000 DOTS providers are expected to watch the patients swallow tablets until the treatment is complete.
© 2008 The Telegraph
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 26 March 2008
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