Effective participation of TB sanatoria in Revised National TB Control Programme (DOTS) in a metropolitan city.

Background: Revised National TB Control Programme has been implemented since 1998 in Bangalore metropolitan city which has several big general hospitals, including two TB sanatoria which attract a large number of respiratory symptomatic and TB patients. Till recently there was significant loss of patients for follow up because of lack of mechanism to reach the patients, good recording practices and linkage with district TB control office.

Objective: To establish an effective referral mechanism between TB sanatoria and peripheral health institutions of the government for providing un-interrupted supervised treatment (DOT) to all newly detected TB patients.