Revised National Tuberculosis Programme used web application NIKSHAY to make monitoring of the disease easy
The private sector has played an important role in reporting Tuberculosis (TB) cases and monitoring their treatment, the annual TB Report 2017 released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday revealed.
In 2016, with the help of NIKSHAY (a web-enabled application developed by National Informatics Centre) to monitor Revised National Tuberculosis Programme (RNTCP) effectively, the program reported almost one-fifth of TB patients from private health care facilities out of total reported patients.
“E-Nikshay platform has been made user friendly so that private doctors find it easy to notify. Keeping TB at bay is everyone’s responsibility, including the private sector. Every TB patient should be able to access treatment without fear of stigma or unwarranted retrenchment,” JP Nadda, Union Health Minister, said.
“The RNTCP is pro actively engaging with the private sector to improve notification and the quality of care it delivers, by using IT enabled tools and innovative public private partnership models. In the last one year, these efforts have resulted in 1.5 fold increase in number of case notifications from private health care providers,” said Nadda.
“Since TB has been made a notifiable disease, more than 1,13,961 private health establishments are registered under NIKSHAY till December 2016. Among them, 70,146 are private practitioners and clinics , 34,105 are hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and 9,710 are laboratories,” the report stated.
“Maximum private health establishments got registered in 2013. Since then, more than 15,000 facilities are getting registered, every year. In 2016, 16,282 facilities registered and 3,30,186 TB patients were notified from private health establishments,” the report stated.
To engage private sector providers, a package of interventions have been implemented in the project Universal Access to TB care (UATBC). The intervention are aimed at improving TB notifications by offering information and communication technology (ICT) support that is convenient to providers, free TB drugs for notified TB patients, (free/subsidised diagnostic services in Patna and Mumbai) and extending public health services including adherence support to treatment outcome for patients diagnosed and treated in the private sector. The interventions are implemented in the districts of Patna in Bihar, Mehsana in Gujarat and Mumbai and Nagpur in Maharashtra.
NIKSHAY platform is being used under the RNTCP to get notification of TB cases at diagnosis from both public and private sector.
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