With the aid of the World Bank, technical guidance of the World Health Organization and in collaboration with the TB department of India under the Revised national Tuberculosis Control Program a procedure named as directly observation treatment short(DOTS)was started as pilot project in the year 1995 at jaipur .Under this a patient has to takeanti TB medication under doctors observation for 6-8 months. Viewing the quality of the program and the exciting results the state government initiated this program in January,2001 and was activated in the entire state.
The program costing about a 100 crore is benefiting the entire state.under this program quality eradication and medication is assured such that the patients can be provided with regular and complete medication free of cost from the nearby health center, social service group, personal doctors and social workers. |