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Health dept teams identifying TB patient to get 500 incentive

Hindustan Times | ByAabshar H Quazi, Kota
Dec 11, 2017 09:21 PM IST

The state health department will incentivise its workers to motivate them in the fight against TB in Rajasthan

The state health department will incentivise its workers to motivate them in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) in Rajasthan.

Under the Union government’ programme, which aims to eradicate TB from the country by 2025, the state health department is running a campaign in seven ’districts’ of Rajasthan from December 4 to 18.(Getty Images)
Under the Union government’ programme, which aims to eradicate TB from the country by 2025, the state health department is running a campaign in seven ’districts’ of Rajasthan from December 4 to 18.(Getty Images)

Under the Union government’ programme, which aims to eradicate TB from the country by 2025, the state health department is running a campaign in seven “districts” of Rajasthan from December 4 to 18. The districts where the campaign is being run to curb the disease are Kota, Jaipur 1, Jaipur 2, Banswara, Jhunjhunu, Sikar and Sriganganagar.

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Under ‘Active Case Finding’ campaign of the health department, a screening team including auxiliary nurse midwives (ANM) and accredited social health activists (ASHA) will be given 500 for finding a TB patient, Dr Ramesh Meena, the district TB officer of Kota, told HT.

Explaining the process of rewarding workers, Meena said, “The screening team will take sample of the suspected TB patients on the basis of symptoms such as decline in appetite, lowering of weight, fever, chest pain and breathlessness for diagnosis,” he said. After confirmation of TB, the patient’s treatment will start within two days. The screening team, which will have maximum two members, will be given 500 incentive after confirmation of the TB case, he added. There are 400 such teams in Kota district alone.

The incentive will be provided to the screening team bringing TB patients through door-to-door screening during the campaign period, he clarified.

“Around 11% population of the Kota city will be screened under the campaign,” Meena said.

Around 2.1 lakh people will be screened under the campaign in Kota, which has around 21 lakh population.

Meena said that the screening teams will submit daily report to the deparatment for effective action on curbing TB. Around 3,000 to 3,500 TB patients have been registered with the government in Kota district, while a similar number of TB patients take treatment from private doctors.

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